New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers Tales of Parasites and People

Name: New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers Tales of Parasites and People
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ISBN: 9780393304268

ISBN-10: 0393304264

ISBN-13: 9780393304268

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Robert S. Desowitz

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The medical tapestry of the world is full of organisms too small to see, carried by flying and creeping creatures too numerous to eradicate. A while ago, DDT and the antimalarial drug chloroquine seemed sure to make us all safe from such invisible assault. It was not to be. The mosquito has become resistant to DDT; malaria is on the rise; although tapeworms rarely turn up any longer in the most lovingly prepared New York City gefilte fish, a worm may inhabit your sashimi; some strains of gonorrhea actually thrive on penicillin; there is even a parasite for the higher tax brackets-the "nymph of Nantucket"; and there are new ailments-legionnaire's disease, Lassa fever, and new strains of…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.40" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Robert S. Desowitz, a leading epidemiologist, is the author of New Guinea Tape Worms and Jewish Grandmothers and The Malaria Capers, among other books. He lives in Pinehurst, North Carolina.