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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edlow, Jonathan A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diagnosis--Popular works.

Diagnosis.

Diagnosis, Differential--Popular works.

Diagnosis, Differential.

Medicine--Case studies.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Place of Publication:

Sydney, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales Press, Ltd., 2010, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

pt. 1. Human meets pathogen

pt. 2. The external environment

pt. 3. The internal milieu.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-235) and index.

ISBN:

1-74223-246-9

OCLC:

664353848