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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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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Text | Request in advance | RA650.5 .A78 1984 | Off-site |
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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