Author : Berton Roueché
Publisher :
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Epidemiology
ISBN :
The Medical Detectives
Berton Roueché
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Adventures of a Female Medical Detective
Mary Guinan
Author : Mary Guinan
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1421439816
Occasionally heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious, Guinan's account of her pathbreaking career will inspire public health students and future medical detectives—and give all readers insight into that part of the government exclusively devoted to protecting their health.
Inside the Outbreaks
Mark Pendergrast
Author : Mark Pendergrast
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Communicable diseases
ISBN : 9780151011209
A history of the Epidemic Intelligence Service from smallpox to smoking
The Medical Detectives
Berton Roueche
Author : Berton Roueche
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 1991-03-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0452265886
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 Roueché. 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 Roueché is unfailingly exact, informative, and able to keep anyone reading till dawn.
True Medical Detective Stories
Clifton K. Meador
Author : Clifton K. Meador
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 9781475037289
Modern technology has given rise to electronic medical records, remote monitoring systems, and satellite-enabled real-time examinations in which patient and physician might be separated by thousands of miles. Yet, when it comes to diagnosing difficult cases, the clinician's strongest asset might just be one of the oldest tools of the medical profession-careful listening. True Medical Detective Stories is a fascinating compendium of nineteen true-life medical cases, each solved by clinical deduction and facilitated by careful listening. These accounts present puzzling low-tech cases-most of them serious, some humorous-that were solved either at the bedside or by epidemiological studies. Dr. Clifton Meador's book is a wonderful contribution to the genre of medical detective stories mastered by the legendary Berton Roueché. As a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1944 until his death fifty years later, Roueché popularized this form, which has provided source material for feature films and most recently supplied scenarios featured in medical television dramas, such as House. While Hollywood frequently oversimplifies and elides the real clinical situations, True Medical Detective Stories sets the record straight with a voice of authority and an engaging style rooted in the fact that most of the cases presented involve Dr. Meador's actual patients. Dr. Meador discovered Berton Roueché's writing as a teenager, when he first read Eleven Blue Men. In an astonishing twist of fate, Roueché, in later years, traveled to Nashville to meet with Dr. Meador and discuss one of his cases, with Roueché's account published posthumously under the title, The Man Who Grew Two Breasts. In a fitting tribute to Roueché, this perplexing case is revisited by Dr. Meador in the opening chapter of this highly enjoyable book. True Medical Detective Stories is a captivating read that will keep you marveling over the idiosyncrasies of the human body and the ingenuity of the human mind.
The Medical Detectives
Paulette Cooper
Author : Paulette Cooper
Publisher : David McKay Company
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Medical
ISBN :
The Medical Detective
Sandra Hempel
Author : Sandra Hempel
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781862079373
A fascinating look at one man's discovery of the cause of the cholera epidemic sweeping the world in the 19th century.
The Medical Detectives
Berton Roueché
Author : Berton Roueché
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Contains three fascinating tales of strange illnesses, rare diseases, poisons, and parasites--each tale a thriller of medical suspense by the incomparable Beron Roueche. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Deadly Dinner Party
Jonathan A. Edlow
Author : Jonathan A. Edlow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0300154992
Picking up where Berton Roueché's The Medical Detectives left off, The Deadly Dinner Party presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow, M.D., shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as the best thrillers.In these stories a notorious stomach bug turns a suburban dinner party into a disaster that almost claims its host; a diminutive woman routinely eats more than her football-playing boyfriend but continually loses weight; a young executive is diagnosed with lung cancer, yet the tumors seem to wax and wane inexplicably. Written for the lay person who wishes to better grasp how doctors decipher the myriad clues and puzzling symptoms they often encounter, each story presents a very different case where doctors must work to find the accurate diagnosis before it is too late. Edlow uses his unique ability to relate complex medical concepts in a writing style that is clear, engaging and easily understandable. The resulting stories both entertain us and teach us much about medicine, its history and the subtle interactions among pathogens, humans, and the environment.
Eleven Blue Men, and Other Narratives of Medical Detection
Berton 1911- Roueché
Author : Berton 1911- Roueché
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781014702661
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