This book highlights the most significant diseases for humans and their dogs, cats and horses. The examples discussed, which include allergies, osteoporosis, cancer and many more, illustrate that humans and their companion animals may in fact develop similar diseases.
The reader - whether expert or interested lay - can thus directly compare between human and animal patients. The animal patient thereby represents a natural disease model, which besides the experimental models, is urgently needed to improve the therapeutic options for both humans and animals.

Table of contents (15 chapters)
Failure in Cardiac Action: Comparing Humans, Dogs, Cats, and Horses
Stöllberger, Claudia (et al.)
Pages 1-12
Epilepsy in Humans and Animals: From Patients to Disease Models
Finsterer, Josef (et al.)
Pages 13-25
Chronic Kidney Failure Affects Humans and Other Mammalians
Kain, Renate (et al.)
Pages 27-46
Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Humans, Pets, and Horses
Roth-Walter, Franziska (et al.)
Pages 47-69
Out of Breath: Asthma in Humans and Their Animals
Hufnagl, Karin (et al.)
Pages 71-85
Comparing Two Major Bone Pathologies in Humans and Companion Animals: Osteoporosis and Hyperparathyroidism
Sipos, Wolfgang (et al.)
Pages 87-96
Life Out of Balance: Stress-Related Disorders in Animals and Humans
Glenk, Lisa Maria (et al.)
Pages 97-107
Allergies, with Focus on Food Allergies, in Humans and Their Animals
Pali-Schöll, Isabella (et al.)
Pages 109-129
Allergic and Atopic Eczema in Humans and Their Animals
Jensen-Jarolim, Erika (et al.)
Pages 131-150
Prophylactic Vaccination Against Papillomavirus-Induced Tumour Disease
Brandt, Sabine (et al.)
Pages 151-165
Tick Bites and Borrelia Infection: A Problem for Mammalian Species
Stanek, Gerold
Pages 167-175
Parasitic Infections in Humans and Animals
Walochnik, Julia (et al.)
Pages 177-189
Comparing Human Breast Cancer with Canine Mammary Cancer
Hadzijusufovic, Emir (et al.)
Pages 191-207
Regulatory Animal Testing for the Development of Medicines
Waxenecker, Günter (et al.)
Pages 209-218
One Health: Many Patients? A Short Theory on What Makes an Animal a Patient
Grimm, Herwig (et al.)
Pages 219-230