| Description |
x, 421 pages ; 22 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
"First Plume Printing, March 1991." |
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"The classic collection of award-winning medical investigative reporting"--Cover. |
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"Previously published in a different form in a Truman Talley Books/Times Books hardcover edition. All of the material in this book has previously appeared in the New Yorker in somewhat different form"--Title page verso. |
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Revision of: The medical detectives / Berton Roueché. Times Books, ©1980. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Eleven blue men -- A pig from Jersey -- A game of wild Indians -- The incurable wound -- CH3CO2C6H4CO2H (aspirin) -- The Liberace Room -- Impression : essentially normal -- A swim in the Nile -- The orange man -- The dead mosquitoes -- Something a little unusual -- A man named Hoffman -- Three sick babies -- The West Branch study -- The Huckleby hogs -- All I could do was stand in the woods -- As empty as Eve -- Two blue hands -- Antipathies -- Sandy -- A rainy day on the Vineyard -- Live and let live -- The fumigation chamber -- A lean cuisine -- The foulest and nastiest creatures that be. |
| Summary |
In each true story, local health authorities and epidemiologists race against time to find the clue to an unknown and possibly fatal disease. |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Case studies.
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Epidemiology. |
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Medicine. |
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Medicine. (OCoLC)fst01014893
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
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| Added Author |
Revision of: Roueché, Berton, 1911-1994.
Medical detectives. ©1980.
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| ISBN |
9780452265882 (paperback) |
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0452265886 (paperback) |
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