New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People
ISBN-13:
9780393304268
ISBN-10:
0393304264
Edition:
Reissue
Author:
Robert S. Desowitz
Publication date:
1987
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
224 pages
Category:
Economics
,
Diseases & Physical Ailments
,
Mathematics
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ISBN-13:
9780393304268
ISBN-10:
0393304264
Edition:
Reissue
Author:
Robert S. Desowitz
Publication date:
1987
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
224 pages
Category:
Economics
,
Diseases & Physical Ailments
,
Mathematics
Summary
New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People (ISBN-13: 9780393304268 and ISBN-10: 0393304264), written by authors
Robert S. Desowitz, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1987.
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Description
The medical tapestry of the world is full of organisms too small to see, carried by flying and creeping creatures too numerous to eradicate.
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 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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