The medical detectives
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The medical detectives
Truman Talley Books/Plume, 1991
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"The classic collection of award-winning medical investigative reporting"--Cover
"All of the material in this book has previously appeared in the New Yorker in somewhat different form"--T.p. verso
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The classic collection of award-winning medical investigative reporting.
What do Lyme's disease in Long Island, a pig from New Jersey, and am amateur pianist have in common? All are subjects in three of 24 utterly fascinating tales of strange illnesses, rare diseases, poisons, and parasites-each tale a thriller of medical suspense by the incomparable Berton Roueche. The best of his New Yorker articles are collected here to astound readers with intriguing tales of epidemics in America's small towns, threats of contagion in our biggest cities, even bubonic plague in a peaceful urban park.
In each true story, local health authorities and epidemiologists race against time to find the clue to an unknown and possibly fatal disease. Sometimes a life hangs in the balance, and the culprit may be as innocuous as a bowl of oatmeal. Award-winning journalist Berton Roueche is unfailingly exact, informative, and able to keep anyone reading till dawn.
Table of Contents
The Medical Detectives1. Eleven BLue Men
2. A Pig from Jersey
3. A Game of WIld Indians
4. The Incurable Wound
5. CH3 CO2 C6 H4 CO2 H (Aspirin)
6. The Liberace Room
7. Impression: Essentially Normal
8. A Swim in the Nile
9. The Orange Man
10. The Dead Mosquitos
11. Something a Little Unusual
12. A Man Named Hoffman
13. Three SIck Babies
14. The West Branch Studies
15. The Huckleby Hogs
16. All I COuld Do Was Stand in the Woods
17. As Empty as Eve
18. Two Blue Hands
19. Antipathies
20. Sandies
21. A Rainy Day on the Vineyard
22. Live and Let Live
23. The Fumigation Chamber
24. A Lean Cuisine
25. The FOulest and Nastiest Creatures That Be
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