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The Woman with a Worm in Her Head
And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
Taschenbuch von Pamela Nagami
Sprache: Englisch

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A normal, healthy woman becomes host to a pork tapeworm that is burrowing into her brain and disabling her motor abilities.

A handsome man contracts Chicken Pox and ends up looking like the victim of a third degree burn.

A vigorous young athlete is bitten by an insect and becomes a target for flesh-eating strep.

Even the most innocuous everyday activities such as eating a salad for lunch, getting bitten by an insect, and swimming in the sea bring human beings into contact with dangerous, often deadly microorganisms. In The Woman with a Worm in Her Head, Dr. Pamela Nagami reveals-through real-life cases-the sobering facts about some of the world's most horrific diseases: the warning signs, the consequences, treatments, and most compellingly, what it feels like to make medical and ethical decisions that can mean the difference between life and death.

Unfailingly precise, calmly instructive, and absolutely engrossing, The Woman with the Worm in Her Head offers both useful information and enjoyable reading.

A normal, healthy woman becomes host to a pork tapeworm that is burrowing into her brain and disabling her motor abilities.

A handsome man contracts Chicken Pox and ends up looking like the victim of a third degree burn.

A vigorous young athlete is bitten by an insect and becomes a target for flesh-eating strep.

Even the most innocuous everyday activities such as eating a salad for lunch, getting bitten by an insect, and swimming in the sea bring human beings into contact with dangerous, often deadly microorganisms. In The Woman with a Worm in Her Head, Dr. Pamela Nagami reveals-through real-life cases-the sobering facts about some of the world's most horrific diseases: the warning signs, the consequences, treatments, and most compellingly, what it feels like to make medical and ethical decisions that can mean the difference between life and death.

Unfailingly precise, calmly instructive, and absolutely engrossing, The Woman with the Worm in Her Head offers both useful information and enjoyable reading.

Über den Autor

Dr. Pamela Nagami is a practicing physician in internal medicine and infectious diseases with the Southern California Permanente Medical Group and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at UCLA. She has made appearances on CNN and NPR. She lives with her husband and two children in Encino, California.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Introduction

1. Worm Hunt

2. Wounded Hearts

3. Valley Fever

4. AIDS

5. Maneater

6. A Fever from Africa

7. Manju

8. The Woman with a Worm in Her Head

9. Septic Shock

10. A Case of Chickenpox

11. Call Me Spot

Conclusion
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 288
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780312306014
ISBN-10: 0312306016
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Nagami, Pamela
Hersteller: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Maße: 213 x 137 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Pamela Nagami
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.12.2002
Gewicht: 0,268 kg
preigu-id: 103681677
Über den Autor

Dr. Pamela Nagami is a practicing physician in internal medicine and infectious diseases with the Southern California Permanente Medical Group and a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at UCLA. She has made appearances on CNN and NPR. She lives with her husband and two children in Encino, California.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Introduction

1. Worm Hunt

2. Wounded Hearts

3. Valley Fever

4. AIDS

5. Maneater

6. A Fever from Africa

7. Manju

8. The Woman with a Worm in Her Head

9. Septic Shock

10. A Case of Chickenpox

11. Call Me Spot

Conclusion
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 288
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780312306014
ISBN-10: 0312306016
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Nagami, Pamela
Hersteller: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Maße: 213 x 137 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Pamela Nagami
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.12.2002
Gewicht: 0,268 kg
preigu-id: 103681677
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