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Between Pets and People: The Importance of Animal Companionship

Between Pets and People: The Importance of Animal Companionship

Katcher, Aaron
Beck, Alan M.

Paperback

Series: New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond

Medical ReferenceGeneral Animals

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 1557530777
ISBN13: 9781557530776
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: Sep 1 1996
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.88 Width: 4.96 Depth: 8.62
Language: English

Pets play a greater role in our emotional and physical health than ever before, says the Purdue University professor who is co-author of his revised edition of Between Pets and People: The Importance of Animal Companionship. The book offers conclusive evidence from the two foremost researchers in the field, Alan M. Beck and Aaron H. Katcher, that animals have a significant influence on human life and health. Dealing with such varied topics as pet ownership and gender differences, the pet's freedom from social taboos, and pets' taking on roles of family members, the authors show that animal companionship affects, and is affected by, the most basic levels of human existence. Even how we name and feed our pets tells us about ourselves and our needs. Between Pets and People explores the emotional and physical benefits of owning a pet and analyzes the complex relationship between people and pets. The study of the importance of the relationship between people and animals is a growing field and has the potential to be part of the whole human-health field, says Beck, director of Purdue's Center for Applied Ethology and Human-Animal Interaction.

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