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Author: Pamela Nagami, M.D.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2002-12-06
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0312306016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authority on infectious diseases discusses the various patients she has encountered and treated, sharing her experiences making medical and ethical decisions that can mean the difference between life and death.
Author: Frank Huyler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009-09
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 0520262514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments—the intricacy of suturing a facial wound, the bath a patient receives from her husband and daughter—interweave with the lives and deaths of the desperately sick and injured. The author presents an array of fascinating characters, both patients and doctors—a neurosurgeon who practices witchcraft, a trauma surgeon who unexpectedly commits suicide, a wounded murderer, a man chased across the New Mexico desert by a heat-seeking missile. At times surreal, at times lyrical, at times brutal and terrifying, The Blood of Strangers is a literary work that emerges from one of the most dramatic specialties of modern medicine. This deeply affecting first book has been described by one early reader as "the best doctor collection I have seen since William Carlos Williams's The Doctor Stories."
Author: Pamela Nagami, M.D.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2002-12-06
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1466842148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA normal, healthy woman becomes host to a pork tapeworm that is burrowing into her brain and disabling her motor abilities. A handsome man contracts Chicken Pox and ends up looking like the victim of a third degree burn. A vigorous young athlete is bitten by an insect and becomes a target for flesh-eating strep. Even the most innocuous everyday activities such as eating a salad for lunch, getting bitten by an insect, and swimming in the sea bring human beings into contact with dangerous, often deadly microorganisms. In The Woman with a Worm in Her Head, Dr. Pamela Nagami reveals-through real-life cases-the sobering facts about some of the world's most horrific diseases: the warning signs, the consequences, treatments, and most compellingly, what it feels like to make medical and ethical decisions that can mean the difference between life and death. Unfailingly precise, calmly instructive, and absolutely engrossing, The Woman with the Worm in Her Head offers both useful information and enjoyable reading.
Author: Charles Kahihu Githae
Publisher: East African Educ. Publ.
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story starts with the incident in the river where still young the narrator loses his even younger sister. He then describes his life in school and his attempts at clinging to his job while avoiding the larger responsibilities of life.
Author: Doreen Cronin
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 0062087096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorm is thrilled when it's his turn to take care of the class pet, Nat the Gnat. But everything goes wrong when he leaves the lid of Nat's tank open. Can Worm make sure the class pet returns safe and sound before Mrs. Mulch finds out? This all-new, original I Can Read story captures the fun of the #1 New York Times bestselling Diary of a Worm picture book series by Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss, and will leave beginning readers wiggling for more! This Level 1 I Can Read book is perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences.
Author: Kathleen McAuliffe
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-06-07
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0544193229
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Engrossing . . . [An] expedition through the hidden and sometimes horrifying microbial domain.” —The Wall Street Journal Parasites can live only inside another animal and, as Kathleen McAuliffe reveals, these tiny organisms have many evolutionary motives for manipulating the behavior of their hosts. With astonishing precision, parasites can coax rats to approach cats, spiders to transform the patterns of their webs, and fish to draw the attention of birds that then swoop down to feast on them. We humans are hardly immune to their influence. Organisms we pick up from our own pets are strongly suspected of changing our personality traits and contributing to recklessness and impulsivity—even suicide. Germs that cause colds and the flu may alter our behavior even before symptoms become apparent. Parasites influence our species on the cultural level, too. Drawing on a huge body of research, McAuliffe argues that our dread of contamination is an evolved defense against parasites. The horror and revulsion we are programmed to feel when we come in contact with people who appear diseased or dirty helped pave the way for civilization, but may also be the basis for major divisions in societies that persist to this day. This Is Your Brain on Parasites is both a journey into cutting-edge science and a revelatory examination of what it means to be human. “If you’ve ever doubted the power of microbes to shape society and offer us a grander view of life, read on and find yourself duly impressed.” —Bookforum “Fascinating—and full of the kind of factoids you can’t wait to share.” —Scientific American “Humorous, inspiring, and macabre, this is infectious reading in the tradition of giants like Robert S. Desowitz and Jared Diamond.” —Michael A. Huffman, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University
Author: Jodi Wheeler-Toppen
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Published: 2020-04-03
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 1632897709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you can find a worm, then you can be a biologist! Foster a love of animals and science with this charming activity guide for finding and observing earthworms. Hands-on experiments help young biologists answer questions like "Which end is which?" and "Do worms make noise?" Insider tips encourage readers to think like a scientist and handle living things with care. Equally entertaining with or without a worm friend.
Author: Simon Shorvon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-02
Total Pages: 1013
ISBN-13: 1108420753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExpanded and revised, this unique book provides concise descriptions of the many causes of epilepsy, for use in clinical practice.
Author: Jo Knowles
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2022-01-25
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1536207837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLittle Worm finds a song stuck in his head--and learns that his friends all have songs of their own to listen to.
Author: C.J. Peters
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 1998-04-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0385485581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Notable Book The man who led the battle against Ebola in The Hot Zone teams up with the bestselling co-author of Mind Hunter to chronicle his extraordinary thirty-year career fighting deadly viruses. For three decades, Dr. C. J. Peters was on the front lines of our biological battle against “hot” viruses around the world. In the course of that career, he learned countless lessons about our interspecies turf wars with infectious agents. Called in to contain an outbreak of deadly hemorrhagic fever in Bolivia, he confronted the despair of trying to save a colleague who accidentally infected himself with an errant scalpel. Working in Level 4 labs on the Machupo and Ebola viruses, he saw time and again why expensive high-tech biohazard containment equipment is only as safe as the people who use it. Because of new, emerging viruses, and the return of old, “vanquished” ones for which vaccines do not exist, there remains a very real danger of a new epidemic that could, without proper surveillance and early intervention, spread worldwide virtually overnight. And the possibility of foreign countries or terrorist groups using deadly airborne viruses—the poor man’s nuclear arsenal—looms larger than ever. High-octane science writing at its best and most revealing, Virus Hunter is a thrilling first-person account of what it is like to be a warrior in the Hot Zone.
