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Extracted from text ... 60 0038-2809 Tydskr.S.Afr.vet.Ver. (2003) 74(3): 60
Book review - Boekresensie
Pets and our mental health: the why, the what and the how
By Johannes Odendaal
(etholcon@worldonline.co.za)
2002. Vantage Press, New York, 199 pp., paperback. Price US$12.00. ISBN 0 533 13856 6.
In the growing study field of human-animal
interaction, and in particular the study of the
therapeutic value of animals for humans, Pets and
our mental health casts a refreshing new perspective
on anthrozoology.
While the beneficial effects of human-animal
interaction, particularly on humans, has gained
much popular support over the past few decades,
real theoretical scientific evidence of such ..