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Concerns about the recent explosions of diseases like HIV, the West Nile Virus, and other avian and swine flus that originate in animals have encouraged new efforts on a global scale to bridge the gap between animal and human medicine for the benefit of both. Zoobiquity is the first book to explore many of the human and animal health issues that overlap and provides new insight into the treatment of many diseases including diabetes, cancer, heart disease and mental illness. But Zoobiquity is even bigger than health and academic medicine, and encompasses much more than our diseases and how to cure them. It sheds light on the evolution of hierarchies and similarities between a tribe of apes and a Fortune 500 company. It suggests that the ways we run our political and justice systems may overlap with how animals protect and defend their territories - and that examining this possibility in a scientifically credible way could help strengthen our institutions. It dangles the possibility that human parenting could be informed by a greater knowledge and respect for how our animal cousins solve issues of childcare, sibling rivalry and infertility.Read More

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    In the tradition of Temple Grandin Oliver Sacks and Neil Shubin cardiologist and psychiatrist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Kathryn Bowers look at the remarkable correspondences between the way human beings and animals live die get sick and heal in their natural settings delving into an array of disciplines--evolution anthropology sociology biology cutting-edge medicine and zoology--to provide 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. After being called in to consult on a case of heart failure in a monkey at the Los Angeles Zoo Natterson-Horowitz found herself launched on a journey of discovery that reshaped her entire approach to medicine. In Zoobiquity she uses fascinating case studies and scholarship to explore the ways in which what we know about animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose treat and ultimately heal human patients.

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    Explores many of the human and animal health issues that overlap and provides insight into the treatment of many diseases including diabetes, cancer, heart disease and mental illness. This title focuses on the evolution of hierarchies and...

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    Barbara Natterson Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers

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