Our Symphony with Animals
Our Symphony with Animals A leader in the fields of animal ethics and neurology, Dr. Akhtar's own story of being a young girl who was bullied in school and sexually abused by her uncle. Aysha Akhtar…
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Our Symphony with Animals
A leader in the fields of animal ethics and neurology, Dr. Akhtar's own story of being a young girl who was bullied in school and sexually abused by her uncle. Aysha Akhtar examines the rich human-animal connection and how interspecies empathy enriches our well-being.Deftly combining medicine, social history and personal experience, Our Symphony with Animals is the first book by a physician to show how deeply the well-being of humans and animals are entwined.Interwoven throughout is Dr.
Akhtar asks, what do we gain when we recognize our kinship with animals? Feeling abandoned by humanity, it was only when she met Sylvester, a dog who had also been abused, that she found strength for both of them.Against the backdrop of her inspiring story, Dr. She travels around the country to tell the stories of a varied cast of characters--including a former mobster, an