Disease Detectives
by Gerald Astor
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The Disease Detectives takes you inside the Centers for Disease Control to meet the scientists to hunt with incredible vigilance for the nature and causes of such hugely publicized killers as Toxic Shock Syndrome and Legionnaire's Disease. But sometimes it is sheer chance that enables them to spot and stop such ancient threats as cholera, bubonic plague, and leprosy when they occasionally reappear today, seemingly from nowhere. These medical detectives tell dramatic tales of tracking down show more virtually unknown diseases to their far-off origins, and of unraveling such tangled puzzles as the outbreak of spontaneous abortions in a single large department store. show lessTags
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While extremely out of date, this was still an enjoyable read. The work of the CDC is endlessly fascinating and the author samples not just their work as disease detectives, but also their work as expert statisticians combating things like traffic fatalities or gun violence. He took a swipe at Paul De Kruif’s microbe hunters, which was a bit like seeing someone who passes out religious pamphlets on the street talking about what hacks Matthew, Mark , Luke and John were.
For a more thrilling and later book on some similar topics…. Check out Laurie Garret’s the coming plague
For a more thrilling and later book on some similar topics…. Check out Laurie Garret’s the coming plague
My absolute favorite glorification of epidemiologists. (Guess what I did for a living). Also highly readable and worthwhile.
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Gerald Astor, a former magazine editor and writer, has published twenty previous books
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature, History, Business
- DDC/MDS
- 616.071 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Diseases, Allergies, Skin Conditions Pathology; Diseases; Treatment Pathology Etiology
- LCC
- RA650.5 .A78 — Medicine Public aspects of medicine Public aspects of medicine Public health. Hygiene. Preventive medicine Epidemics. Epidemiology. Quarantine. Disinfection
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
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