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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
  • Centers for Disease Control (U.S.) > History
  • Disease Outbreaks > history
  • Epidemics > United States > History
  • Epidemiology > History. > United States
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