Between Pets and People: The Importance of Animal Companionship - Hardcover

Beck, Alan; Katcher, Aaron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399127755 ISBN 13: 9780399127755

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 1983

Synopsis

Argues that pets can improve one's health and help reduce stress, discusses the relationships between people and their pets, and looks at animal behavior

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Since the first edition of Between Pets and People in 1983, the authors' then-startling contention that pets benefit our mental and physical health has found wide acceptance. Evidence in our daily lives - in television pet food ads, in doctor's offices outfitted with aquaria - attests to how widely the belief in pets' therapeutic influence is now held. This revised edition of Between Pets and People, with additional data and case studies and expanded references - including a listing of Internet resources - and a foreword by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, analyzes the surprisingly complex relationships we have with our pets. This book contains an important lesson for everyone - to accept ourselves and others in the uncritical way that pets accept us, and come to terms with our own animal nature.

About the Author:

Dr. Alan Beck is the Dorothy N. McAllister Professor of Animal Ecology at Purdue University. Before coming to Purdue, Beck directed the Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society at the University of Pennsylvania and was director of animal programs for the New York City Department of Health.Aaron Katcher continues some work at the University of Pennsylvania veterinary school, but spends most of his time in research at the Devereaux Foundation, Brandywine, Pa. The foundation offers residential treatment of severely disturbed children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0399127755
• ISBN 13: 9780399127755
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 317