"Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2012"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-377) and index.

In 2005, cardiologist, Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, started researching the afflictions encountered in her patients to find out if other animals were also affected. Astonishingly, she discovered that animals do indeed faint, overeat, and get cancers, just like we do, although doctors and veterinarians often treated similar conditions in vastly different ways. Perhaps healthcare would improve if the two disciplines shared new discoveries and tools? Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Kathryn Bowers have dubbed this pan-species approach to medicine zoobiquity. With this revelatory understanding of what animals can teach us about ourselves, they explore how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat, and heal patients of all species. -- taken from back cover.