Robert S. Desowitz

New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 bracketsthe "nymph of Nantucket"; and there are new ailmentslegionnaire's disease, Lassa fever, and new strains of influenza.

In the long run, one might bet on the insects and the germs. Meanwhile Dr. Robert Desowitz has written a delightful and instructive book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 1987
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393292381
• Artikelnr.: 59593224

Autorenporträt

Robert S. Desowitz (19262008) was a leading epidemiologist and the author of New Guinea Tape Worms and Jewish Grandmothers and The Malaria Capers, among other books.