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Autore |
Edlow Jonathan A |
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Titolo |
The deadly dinner party [[electronic resource] ] : and other medical detective stories / / Jonathan A. Edlow |
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Sydney, N.S.W., : University of New South Wales Press, Ltd., 2010, c2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (259 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Diagnosis |
Diagnosis, Differential |
Medicine |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-235) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Human meets pathogen -- pt. 2. The external environment -- pt. 3. The internal milieu. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The world is filled with bizarre and fascinating ways to fall ill. 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. In these fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories, practicing physician and award-winning author Jonathan Edlow, shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gri |
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