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The deadly dinner party [[electronic resource] ] : and other medical detective stories / / Jonathan A. Edlow



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Autore: Edlow Jonathan A Visualizza persona
Titolo: The deadly dinner party [[electronic resource] ] : and other medical detective stories / / Jonathan A. Edlow Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Sydney, N.S.W., : University of New South Wales Press, Ltd., 2010, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
Disciplina: 362.1
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Soggetto topico: Diagnosis
Diagnosis, Differential
Medicine
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-235) and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Human meets pathogen -- pt. 2. The external environment -- pt. 3. The internal milieu.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: The deadly dinner party  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-74223-246-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910458457603321
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