Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz (Author), Kathryn Bowers (Author). In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. Whereas inspecting the tiny monkey’s sick coronary heart, she realized that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest introduced on by excessive emotional stress. It was a syndrome an identical to a human situation but one that veterinarians known as by a different name-and treated in modern ways.
This outstanding medical parallel launched Natterson-Horowitz on a journey of discovery that reshaped her total strategy to medicine. She began to search for other connections between the human and animal worlds: Do animals get breast most cancers, anxiety-induced fainting spells, sexually transmitted illnesses? Do they undergo from obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia, habit?
The solutions were astonishing. Dinosaurs suffered from mind cancer. Koalas catch chlamydia. Reindeer search narcotic escape in hallucinogenic mushrooms. Stallions self-mutilate. Gorillas expertise clinical depression.
Becoming a member of forces with science journalist Kathryn Bowers, Natterson-Horowitz employs fascinating case research and meticulous scholarship to present a revelatory understanding of what animals can educate us about the human body and mind. “Zoobiquity” is the term the authors have coined to check with a brand new, species-spanning approach to health. Delving into evolution, anthropology, sociology, biology, veterinary science, and zoology, they break down the partitions between disciplines, redefining the boundaries of medicine.
Zoobiquity explores how animal and human commonality can be utilized to diagnose, deal with, and heal patients of all species. Each authoritative and accessible, offering slicing-edge research by captivating narratives, this provocative e book encourages us to see our essential connection to all living beings.
This e book is a treasure of widespread sense concept that America misses out on because of the conceitedness of our culture. The revelations about this work should not be a surprise. Our medical system is managed by snobs, proficient as they are, who refuse to acknowledge that our fellow mammals, yes animals, have the same inside methods as people do and subsequently have the same maladies, diseases and diseases. This e book wants rather more exposure in order that its knowledge shouldn’t be shuffled away.
This e book does the almost impossible. It attracts the reader in with charming anecdotes after which explains the scientific logic behind new concepts while remaining easy and entertaining to read. It’s deep, thoughtful content material but gentle reading. It’s each scientifically accurate and fun. It is a good way to learn extra about medication and about evolution. Managing these balancing acts is something that the vast majority of popular scientific books fail to realize, however Zoobiquity succeeds so gracefully and nimbly that one does not even notice the tightrope. This book deserves a gold medal.
Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz (Author), Kathryn Bowers (Author)
320 pages
Knopf; 1 edition (June 12, 2012)
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