{"product_id":"marine-mammal-health-and-disease-isbn-9781394215140","title":"Marine Mammal Health and Disease","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA practical and authoritative reference for veterinary practitioners and technicians working with marine mammals in managed care or in free-ranging populations\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMarine Mammal Health and Disease\u003c\/i\u003e, distinguished veterinarian researcher Dr. Julia Zaias delivers an up-to-date and practical discussion of how to assess health and disease in marine mammals. The author offers a foundational, high-level understanding of normal\/baseline conditions, how this baselines is altered by infectious agents, environment, or the host itself, and how to diagnose these changes and diseases. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s chapters are logically organized by health assessment and management, environmental influences on health, the basis of marine mammal health, disease, and animal welfare. It covers cetaceans, sirenia, pinnipeds, and other marine carnivores, as well as the pathology of cells and tissues, the mechanisms of disease, inflammation, and etiologic disease factors. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders will also find: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA thorough introduction to the basis of health and disease in marine animals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComprehensive explorations of health assessment and management, including clinical pathology and general preventative medicine and diagnostics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePractical discussions of both marine mammals in managed care environments and free-ranging animals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComplete treatments of environmental influences on health and disease in marine animals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerfect for students in veterinary and veterinary tech programs, conservation biology and medicine students, and marine mammal conservationists, managers, and trainers, \u003ci\u003eMarine Mammal Health and Disease \u003c\/i\u003ewill also benefit researchers, wildlife and zoological veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and aquarium specialists and facility staff. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDedication v\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgment xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Companion Website xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 1 Basis of Health and Disease 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Cells and Tissues in Health and Disease 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Inflammation and the Immune Response 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Anatomy and Physiology 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Etiologic Agents of Infectious Disease 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 2 Health Assessment and Management 61\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Clinical Pathology and Diagnostics 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Medical Care and Health Assessment of Marine Mammals 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Reproductive Health and Management 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 3 Environmental Influences on Health\/Disease 129\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Health, Harmful Algal Blooms, and Environmental Contaminants 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Stress and Health 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Marine Mammal Health, Welfare, and the Future 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 187\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Zaias, PhD, DVM,\u003c\/b\u003e is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Comparative Pathology Division of the Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida. She has over twenty years’ experience researching and working in the areas of stranded cetacean response, rehabilitation, necropsy, and histopathology.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA practical and authoritative reference for veterinary practitioners and technicians working with marine mammals in managed care or in free-ranging populations\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMarine Mammal Health and Disease\u003c\/i\u003e, distinguished veterinarian researcher Dr. Julia Zaias delivers an up-to-date and practical discussion of how to assess health and disease in marine mammals. The author offers a foundational, high-level understanding of normal\/baseline conditions, how this baselines is altered by infectious agents, environment, or the host itself, and how to diagnose these changes and diseases. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s chapters are logically organized by health assessment and management, environmental influences on health, the basis of marine mammal health, disease, and animal welfare. 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