{"product_id":"9781471173103","title":"One Medicine : How understanding animals can save our lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Morgan, Dr Matt \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 14\/03\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 288 pages, NONE,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781471173103,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time when flying, how do they survive? he thought to himself. This began an investigation that spanned continents, species and millennia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   For animal science has so much to teach us about human medicine. While some of the overlaps and parallels are obvious – we know how much DNA we share with primates, the first pig heart has been transplanted into a human – there is so much more that we have learnt from the animal world. For example, studying kangaroos, in particular the female’s three vaginas, has improved in-vitro fertilisation success rates. Watching how a giraffe breathes can help save the life of someone struggling with asthma. Investigating why birds that live in the frozen Arctic circle don’t freeze to death led to advances with treating hypothermia. Getting a ECG on the 150kg heart of a humpback whale was instrumental to keeping patients with cardiac failure living longer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   We owe animals so much, it’s time to focus on examining how they live and what we still have to learn from them. Better shared understanding of how our species coexists with millions of others can lead to untold medical advances, help both humans and animals and improve the world for all creatures from single-celled bacteria to a 30,000 kg whale. Who knows, maybe a kiss from a frog will save your life?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42341501632556,"sku":"9781471173103","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/products\/9781471173103.jpg?v=1704448530","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9781471173103","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}