Zoobiquity

Product Description

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