Berton Roueché (1910–1994)
Author of The Medical Detectives, Volume 1
About the Author
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Works by Berton Roueché
Curiosities of medicine;: An assembly of medical diversions, 1552-1962 (1963) — Editor; Contributor — 25 copies
Il medico è anche poliziotto 1 copy
L'uomo arancione 1 copy
Man Named Hoffman , A 1 copy
Special Places 1 copy
Curiosities of Medicine 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Roueché, Berton
- Birthdate
- 1910-04-16
- Date of death
- 1994-04-28
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Missouri
- Occupations
- journalist
novelist
medical writer - Organizations
- The New Yorker
- Awards and honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1982)
- Short biography
- Berton Roueché, the "master of medical mysteries," wrote the Annals of Medicine column about medical detectives and their epidemiological work for The New Yorker for almost 50 years. He also wrote more than 20 books, some of which helped inspire movies and TV series.
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Places of residence
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Amagansett, New York, USA - Place of death
- Amagansett, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- New York, USA
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The cover is way better than the book is. The prose is so bare-bones that it's an interesting stylistic choice. But none of the characters are interesting and the action doesn't get cooking until the second half, and even then it doesn't get crazy enough for this kind of story. Because it's so hard to make cats scary, I think that it would've been better if it was either all-out insane and absurd (like Nick Sharman's "The Cats") or if the author gave personality and emotional backstory to show more the animals (like in Jerold Mundis's "The Dogs" or David Fisher's "The Pack"). show less
I love this book. It's just way too much fun. Domestic cats attacking and eating people in hordes. I probably like it more than I should, lol.
The Medical Detectives: The Classic Collection of Award-Winning Medical Investigative Reporting (Truman Talley) by Berton Roueché
It would be more awesome with annotations on current updates on the diseases.
Orig. appeared in The New Yorker magazine
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- Works
- 36
- Also by
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- Popularity
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- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
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