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The disease detectives : deadly medical mysteries and the people who solved them / by Gerald Astor.

Title: The disease detectives : deadly medical mysteries and the people who solved them / by Gerald Astor.
Author: Astor, Gerald, 1926-2007.
Publication: New York : New American Library, c1984.

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Description

218 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

"A Plume book."
Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 216.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

The CDC on the case -- "One of the most dangerous things in the world" -- The John Snow disease -- The gay men's disease -- The sound of hoofbeats -- TSS -- Something did not go well with coke -- A winter's tale of a summer disease -- The curse of the swineherd -- Hemorrhagic fevers -- The Black Death in New Mexico -- Getting into heavy metal -- The circling disease -- Investigations for the future.

ISBN

0452255406 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^83026867^

OCLC

10272666

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library