Zoobiquity: Connecting Health in Animals and Humans
Barbara Natterson–Horowitz & Kathryn Bowers
Tuesday, 09 Apr 2013 at 7:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
What does the flamingo's heart attack, the dolphin's diabetes, and the koala's chlamydia mean for human health? Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers are coauthors of Zoobiquity, a book that explores how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat, and heal patients of all species. "Zoobiquity" is the term the authors have coined to refer to a new, species-spanning approach to health. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a cardiac consultant for the Los Angeles Zoo and a member of the zoo's Medical Advisory Board. She is Director of Imaging at the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center and a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Kathryn Bowers has written and edited fiction and nonfiction books and articles and taught writing at UCLA. She began her career in journalism as a staff editor of the Atlantic Monthly and worked for CNN-International in London. She later served as an assistant press attach at the United States Embassy in Moscow. Part of the One Health Lecture Series.Animals and humans get the same diseases but physicians and veterinarians rarely communicate with one another. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers explore the connections between breast cancer in jaguars and beluga whales, eating disorders in pigs and elk, substance abuse in waxwing birds and cocker spaniels, even sexual dysfunction in stallions. Their presentation draws on the latest in medical and veterinary science as well as dynamic new findings in evolutionary and molecular biology. In the end it shows how connecting knowledge across disciplines can improve our physical and mental health.
The One Health Lecture Series was established in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University in honor of Dr. Roger Mahr, CEO of the One Health Commission.
This lecture is approved for 1 CEU by the Iowa Board of Veterinary Medicine.
Cosponsored By:
- College of Veterinary Medicine
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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