What Does Animal Madness Teach Us About Our Own?
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Friday, September 5, 2014
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Laurel Braitman questions what animal madness mean for humans.
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Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode Animals And Us.
About Laurel Braitman's TED Talk
From compulsive bears to self-destructive rats, science historian Laurel Braitman studies animals with mental health issues and asks what we can learn from them.
About Laurel Braitman
Laurel Braitman is a science historian who wants to know: Why is your cat so sad? For her book Animal Madness, she delves into the history of mental illness in animals, revealing a world of parrots that pluck themselves, cats with PTSD and donkeys with deep neuroses. Braitman holds a Ph.D in history and anthropology of science from MIT and works as an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts.
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