BullS-Eye Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease

Name: BullS-Eye Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease
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ISBN: 9780300098679

ISBN-10: 0300098677

ISBN-13: 9780300098679

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jonathan A. Edlow

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Lyme Disease is an ailment spread by ticks, with a broad array of nonspecific symptoms & ultimately devastating consequences. Known to medicine for centuries, it was not until the 1970s that research began to fathom its true complexity & characteristics. This is a history of the diagnosis.

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 4/10/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Chronology


A Family Under Siege


A Little Girl's Knee


The Broad Street Pump


An Appointment in New Haven


An Outbreak of Arthritis


An Outbreak of Dematitis


The European Connection


Further Work in Europe


The Blind Men and the Elephant


The Connection with Ticks


An Intersection of Investigations


From the Alps to the Rockies


To Treat or Not to Treat?


The Scramble for the Cause


The Culmination of Efforts


Progress to the End of the 1980s


A Geographical Expansion


The Diagnostician's Dilemma


Ambiguity in the Lab


A Tick with Two Toxins


Cracks in the Theory


Another Paradigm


Therapeutic Adventures


Genomes and Vaccines


Legal and Political Battles


An Independent Reality


Epilogue


Appendix


Symptoms of Lyme Disease


Tick-Borne Diseases in Humans and Animals


Sources


Glossary


Index