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Diagnosing giants : solving the medical mysteries of thirteen patients who changed the world
- Title
- Diagnosing giants : solving the medical mysteries of thirteen patients who changed the world / Philip A. Mackowiak.
- Author
- Mackowiak, Philip A.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013], ©2013.
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- Description
- xii, 225 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- Mackowiak traces the history of medicine through the illnesses of some of the most influential figures of the past. The diseases suffered by these figures had profound effects on their lives and their legacies.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Mummy's curse -- A last repast -- Little boots -- Noble enemy -- "Interred at the least possible expense" -- El sordo -- A medical labyrinth -- Old Jack -- Mortal wound -- Voyage to invalidism -- Vessels of stone -- Fatal zest for living -- "Too busy to be sick".
- ISBN
- 9780199937776 (alk. paper)
- 019993777X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012051224
- 40022775242
- OCLC
- ocn822991638
- 822991638
- SCSB-14174647
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries