She is also a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and is a Consultant Editor for the Journal of Animal Ethics. Public Health Services, in which she deploys to assist with national public health emergencies. She is an Officer (Lieutenant Commander) in the U.S. She serves as Medical Officer for the Office of Counterterrorism and Emerging Threats of the Food and Drug Administration, for which she has Top Secret Security Clearance. is a double Board-Certified in both Neurology and Preventive Medicine and has a Master's Degree in Public Health. Our Symphony with Animals is the definitive account for why our relationships with animals matter.Īysha Akhtar, M.D.
In equal measure, the love we give to animals biologically reverberates back to us. Violence against animals goes against our nature. Humans are neurologically designed to empathize with animals. Feeling abandoned by humanity, it was only when she met Sylvester, a dog who had also been abused, that she find the strength to sound the alarm for them both. Akhtar's own story, an immigrant who was bullied in school and abused by her uncle. Drawing on the accounts of a varied cast of characters-a former mobster, a pediatrician, an industrial chicken farmer, a serial killer, and a deer hunter-to reveal what happens when we both break and forge bonds with animals. When we include animals in our circle of empathy, we not only liberate animals, we also liberate ourselves.
Akhtar reveals how empathy for animals is the next step in our species' moral evolution and a vital component of human health. Aysha Akhtar examines the rich human-animal connection and how interspecies empathy enriches our well-being.ĭeftly combining medicine, social history and personal experience, Our Symphony with Animals is the first book by a physician to show that humans and animals have a shared destiny-our well-being is deeply entwined.ĭr. Description A leader in the fields of animal ethics and neurology, Dr.
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