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

基本信息出版社:Knopf (2012年6月12日)精装:320页正文语种:英语ISBN:0307593487条形码:9780307593481商品重量:667 gASIN:0307593487您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?

商品描述内容简介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. InZoobiquity,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.作者简介DR. BARBARA NATTERSON-HOROWITZ earned her degrees at Harvard and UCSF. She is a cardiology professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the L.A. Zoo as a cardiovascular consultant. Her writing has appeared in many scientific and medical publications.

KATHRYN BOWERS was a staff editor atThe AtlanticMonthlyand writer and producer at CNN International. She has edited and written popular and academic books and teaches a course on medical narrative at UCLA.