comparative study medicine
What is Comparative Medicine? Comparative medicine is the study of disease in humans and animals, looking at similarities and differences between the two. Through these types of studies, researchers can find ways to better diagnose, prevent and treat disease in all species. Comparative Medicine makes medical research more efficient and effective.
Beach's (1950) lament that comparative psychology is too focused on the laboratory rat would certainly not have applied to this early textbook of comparative psychology. In this chapter, she addressed the challenges to comparative psychology and the empirical methods by which these challenges can be tackled.