| Description |
x, 421 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"The classic collection of award-winning medical investigative reporting"--Cover. |
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"All of the material in this book has previously appeared in the New Yorker in somewhat different form"--T.p. verso. |
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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 -- Case Reports.
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Medicine -- Case Reports.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Roueché, Berton, 1911- Medical detectives. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Truman Talley Books/Plume, c1988 (1991 printing) (OCoLC)556038529 |
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Online version: Roueché, Berton, 1911- Medical detectives. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Truman Talley Books/Plume, c1988 (1991 printing) (OCoLC)609951052 |
| ISBN |
0452265886 |
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9780452265882 |
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