The Medical Detectives
Author: Berton Roueché
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13:
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The Medical Detectives
Author: Berton Roueche
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1991-03-30
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0452265886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic collection of award-winning medical investigative reporting. What do Lyme’s disease in Long Island, a pig from New Jersey, and am amateur pianist have in common? All are subjects in three of 24 utterly fascinating tales of strange illnesses, rare diseases, poisons, and parasites—each tale a thriller of medical suspense by the incomparable Berton Roueché. The best of his New Yorker articles are collected here to astound readers with intriguing tales of epidemics in America’s small towns, threats of contagion in our biggest cities, even bubonic plague in a peaceful urban park. In each true story, local health authorities and epidemiologists race against time to find the clue to an unknown and possibly fatal disease. Sometimes a life hangs in the balance, and the culprit may be as innocuous as a bowl of oatmeal. Award-winning journalist Berton Roueché is unfailingly exact, informative, and able to keep anyone reading till dawn.
Adventures of a Female Medical Detective
Author: Mary Guinan
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2021-08-03
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1421439816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOccasionally heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious, Guinan's account of her pathbreaking career will inspire public health students and future medical detectives—and give all readers insight into that part of the government exclusively devoted to protecting their health.
Medical Detectives
Author: Robin Odell
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0752489305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe development of forensic pathology in Britain is told here through the lives of five outstanding medical pioneers. Spanning seventy years, their careers and achievements marked major milestones in the development of legal medicine, their work and innovation laying the foundations for modern crime scene investigation (CSI). Bernard Spilsbury, Sydney Smith and Professors Glaister, Camps and Simpson were the original expert witnesses. Between them, they performed over 200,000 postmortems during their professional careers, establishing crucial elements of murder investigation such as time, place and cause of death. This forensic quintet featured in many of the notable murder trials of their time, making ground-breaking discoveries in the process. They were treated as celebrities by the media, and news that they were 'on the case' featured in numerous headlines. In the best traditions of scholarship, they also worked as teachers, passing on their knowledge and experience to future pathologists.
Inside the Outbreaks
Author: Mark Pendergrast
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780151011209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the Epidemic Intelligence Service from smallpox to smoking
True Medical Detective Stories
Author: Clifton K. Meador
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-06-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781475037289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern technology has given rise to electronic medical records, remote monitoring systems, and satellite-enabled real-time examinations in which patient and physician might be separated by thousands of miles. Yet, when it comes to diagnosing difficult cases, the clinician's strongest asset might just be one of the oldest tools of the medical profession-careful listening. True Medical Detective Stories is a fascinating compendium of nineteen true-life medical cases, each solved by clinical deduction and facilitated by careful listening. These accounts present puzzling low-tech cases-most of them serious, some humorous-that were solved either at the bedside or by epidemiological studies. Dr. Clifton Meador's book is a wonderful contribution to the genre of medical detective stories mastered by the legendary Berton Roueché. As a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1944 until his death fifty years later, Roueché popularized this form, which has provided source material for feature films and most recently supplied scenarios featured in medical television dramas, such as House. While Hollywood frequently oversimplifies and elides the real clinical situations, True Medical Detective Stories sets the record straight with a voice of authority and an engaging style rooted in the fact that most of the cases presented involve Dr. Meador's actual patients. Dr. Meador discovered Berton Roueché's writing as a teenager, when he first read Eleven Blue Men. In an astonishing twist of fate, Roueché, in later years, traveled to Nashville to meet with Dr. Meador and discuss one of his cases, with Roueché's account published posthumously under the title, The Man Who Grew Two Breasts. In a fitting tribute to Roueché, this perplexing case is revisited by Dr. Meador in the opening chapter of this highly enjoyable book. True Medical Detective Stories is a captivating read that will keep you marveling over the idiosyncrasies of the human body and the ingenuity of the human mind.
The Medical Detective
Author: Sandra Hempel
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 2014-03-06
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1783780622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Cholera is a killer with little respect for class or wealth. When it arrived in Britain, its repercussions rocked Victorian England - from the filthy lanes of the Sunderland quayside and the squalid streets of Soho, to the great centres of power: the Privy Council, Whitehall and the Royal Medical Colleges. One man - alone and unrecognized - uncovered the truth behind the pandemic and laid the foundations for the modern scientific investigation of today's fatal plagues. John Snow was a reclusive doctor, without money or social position, who had the genius to look beyond the conventional wisdom of his day and work out that cholera was spread through drinking water. The book draws extensively on nineteenth-century medical, political and personal records in order to describe what is both an important breakthrough for medical science and also a dramatic story with a cast of colourful characters, from the heroic to the frighteningly incompetent. The book is also full of fascinating diversions into aspects of medical and social history, from Snow's tending of Queen Victoria in childbirth, to the Dutch microbiologist Leeuwenhoek's breeding of lice in his socks, and from Dickensian children's farms to riotous nineteenth-century anaesthesia parties.
The Medical Detectives
Author: Paulette Cooper
Publisher: David McKay Company
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
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Author: Paulette Cooper
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781301355464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLovers of CSI will find a treasure trove of fascinating information on suicide, paternity suits, rape, drugs, poison, sexual asphyxia, battered babies, strangulation, time of death, blood (serology), cafe coronaries, etc. in this award-winning 1973 book, now available as an e-book.
The Medical Detective
Author: Sandra Hempel
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781862079373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating look at one man's discovery of the cause of the cholera epidemic sweeping the world in the 19th century.
