The deadly dinner party [[electronic resource] ] : and other medical detective stories / / Jonathan A. Edlow
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Sydney, N.S.W., : University of New South Wales Press, Ltd., 2010, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (259 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1 |
| 616.07/5 | |
| 616.075 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Diagnosis |
| Diagnosis, Differential | |
| Medicine | |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-74223-246-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791477203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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