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Zoobiquity
Beschreibung:
1. Dr. House, Meet Doctor Dolittle
Redefining the Boundaries of Medicine
2. The Feint of Heart
Why We Pass Out
3. Jews. Jaguars and Jurassic Cancer
New Hope for Ancient Diagnosis
4. Roar-gasm
An Animal Guide to Human Sexuality
5. Zoophoria
Getting High and Getting Clean
6. Scared to Death
Heart Attacks in the Wild
7. Fat Planet
Why Animals Get Fat and How They Get Thin
8. Grooming Gone Wild
Pain, Pleasure, and the Origins of Self-Injury
9. Fear of Feeding
Eating Disorders in the Animal Kingdom
10. The Koala and the Clap
The Hidden Power of Infection
11. Leaving the Nest
Animal Adolescence and the Risky Business of Growing up
12. Zoobiquity
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
A revelatory depiction of what animals can teach us about the human body and mind, exploring how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat, and heal patients of all species.
"Full of fascinating stories. Atul Gawande, M.D.
Do animals overeat? Get breast cancer? Have fainting spells? Inspired by an eye-opening consultation at the Los Angeles Zoo, which revealed that a monkey experienced the same symptoms of heart failure as human patients, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz embarked upon a project that would reshape how she practiced medicine.
Beginning with the above questions, she began informally researching every affliction that she encountered in humans to learn whether it happened with animals, too. And usually, it did: dinosaurs suffered from brain cancer, koalas can catch chlamydia, reindeer seek narcotic escape in hallucinogenic mushrooms, stallions self-mutilate, and gorillas experience clinical depression.
Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Kathryn Bowers have dubbed this pan-species approach to medicine zoobiquity.
New York Times Bestseller
An O, The Oprah Magazine Summer Reading Pick
A Discover Magazine Best Book