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    Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing

    Written by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers

    Narrated by Karen White

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    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. While examining the tiny monkey's sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress. It was a syndrome identical to a human condition but one that veterinarians called by a different name-and treated in innovative ways.

    This remarkable medical parallel launched Natterson-Horowitz on a journey of discovery that reshaped her entire approach to medicine. She began to search for other connections between the human and animal worlds: Do animals get breast cancer, anxiety-induced fainting spells, sexually transmitted diseases? Do they suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia, addiction?

    The answers were astonishing. Dinosaurs suffered from brain cancer. Koalas catch chlamydia. Reindeer seek narcotic escape in hallucinogenic mushrooms. Stallions self-mutilate. Gorillas experience clinical depression.

    Joining forces with science journalist Kathryn Bowers, Natterson-Horowitz employs fascinating case studies and meticulous scholarship to present a revelatory understanding of what animals can teach us about the human body and mind. "Zoobiquity" is the term the authors have coined to refer to a new, species-spanning approach to health. Delving into evolution, anthropology, sociology, biology, veterinary science, and zoology, they break down the walls between disciplines, redefining the boundaries of medicine.

    Zoobiquity explores how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat, and heal patients of all species. Both authoritative and accessible, offering cutting-edge research through captivating narratives, this provocative book encourages us to see our essential connection to all living beings.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 12, 2012
    ISBN9780307989512
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    Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
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    Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

    Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD, is a Visiting Professor at Harvard University in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. She is also Professor of Medicine/Cardiology at UCLA and President of the International Society of Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. She is the coauthor of Zoobiquity and Wildhood.

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    • 5/5
      Utterly fascinating! Really makes one reconsider how much of what we do is really not unique.
    • 5/5
      Fascinating exposition on what our shared DNA with other species really means in terms of disease and the mortal coil. Written by doctors I did not expect it to continually highlight the plight of animals in our world - it's not done frequently or pedantically, but the tone is clearly one of "humans and animals share so much that doctors of all species can learn by talking to one another and, as an aside we should also treat animals better."Very nicely done.
    • 5/5
      A fascinating look at the many physical and psychological health problems humans share with our fellow animals (depression, drug addiction, eating disorders, erectile dysfunction, heart disease, obesity, self-mutilation, veneral diseases, etc.), and how much more could be learned about prevention and treatment if human medicine would work more closely with veterinary medicine.
    • 5/5
      Wonderfully well written, making the content so accessible. Fascinating information about the interconnectedness of human and non-human medicine.
    • 4/5
      Not a new concept for me -- have been exposed to the one health concept before. Nice presentation for the newcomer though. Well-written, good read, nice coverage of the concept.
    • 4/5
      some really interesting, some not.