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Author | : Pamela Nagami, M.D. |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2002-12-06 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1466842148 |
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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.
Author | : Pamela Nagami, M.D. |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2002-12-06 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0312306016 |
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An authority on infectious diseases discusses the various patients she has encountered and treated, sharing her experiences making medical and ethical decisions that can mean the difference between life and death.
Author | : Pamela Nagami |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2007-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781422390221 |
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Ordering a salad for lunch? When Danielle Jordon ordered one she had no idea that she was to become host to an organism that 6 years later would grow into a worm that would burrow into her brain. Been bitten by an insect? This gave Allan Roth flesh-eating strep, which resulted in his skin shedding like a snake. Walking along a dusty road? The dust might contain fungus spores that will kill the person who simply breathes them into their lungs. These hazards & others are examined in this fascinating foray into the world of Nagami, who specializes in finding the cause of the strange infections presented by her patients. She teaches us what these diseases are, & how it feels to make med. & ethical decisions that can mean the diff. between life & death.
Author | : Pamela Nagami |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2005-09 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780312318239 |
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We've all been bitten, and we all have stories. The bite attacks that Pamela Nagami has chosen to write about in this book take place all around the world, and throughout history. With reports from medical journals, case histories, colleagues, and her own career as a practicing physician and infectious disease specialist, the author offers readers intrigued by infection, disease, and mesmerized by creatures in the wild a compulsively readable narrative that is entertaining, sometimes disturbing, and always engrossing. -- Publisher description.
Author | : Viola Canales |
Publisher | : Wendy Lamb Books |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 030743401X |
Download The Tequila Worm Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sofia comes from a family of storytellers. Here are her tales of growing up in the barrio in McAllen, Texas, full of the magic and mystery of family traditions: making Easter cascarones, celebrating el Dia de los Muertos, preparing for quinceañera, rejoicing in the Christmas nacimiento, and curing homesickness by eating the tequila worm. When Sofia is singled out to receive a scholarship to boarding school, she longs to explore life beyond the barrio, even though it means leaving her family to navigate a strange world of rich, privileged kids. It’s a different mundo, but one where Sofia’s traditions take on new meaning and illuminate her path.
Author | : Bram Stoker |
Publisher | : Jovian Press |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2017-12-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1537811185 |
Download The Lair of the White Worm Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In a tale of ancient evil, Bram Stoker creates a world of lurking horrors and bizarre denizens: a demented mesmerist, hellbent on mentally crushing the girl he loves; a gigantic kite raised to rid the land of an unnatural infestation of birds, and which receives strange commands along its string; and all the while, the great white worm slithers below, seeking its next victim...
Author | : Frank Huyler |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2009-09 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0520262514 |
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Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments—the intricacy of suturing a facial wound, the bath a patient receives from her husband and daughter—interweave with the lives and deaths of the desperately sick and injured. The author presents an array of fascinating characters, both patients and doctors—a neurosurgeon who practices witchcraft, a trauma surgeon who unexpectedly commits suicide, a wounded murderer, a man chased across the New Mexico desert by a heat-seeking missile. At times surreal, at times lyrical, at times brutal and terrifying, The Blood of Strangers is a literary work that emerges from one of the most dramatic specialties of modern medicine. This deeply affecting first book has been described by one early reader as "the best doctor collection I have seen since William Carlos Williams's The Doctor Stories."
Author | : Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012-10-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416995412 |
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Cats. Jessica’s never liked them. Especially not a skinny, ugly kitten that looks like a worm. Worm. Jessica wishes she’d never brought Worm home with her, because now he’s making her do terrible things. She’s sure she isn’t imagining the evil voice coming from the cat, telling her to play mean tricks on people. But how can she explain what’s happening? Witches. Jessica has read enough books to know that Worm must be a witch’s cat. He’s cast a spell on her, but whom can she turn to? After all, no one will believe that Worm has bewitched her...or worse!
Author | : Maryann Easley |
Publisher | : Turtleback |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2004-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781417647910 |
Download I Am the Ice Worm Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When the plane carrying her to visit her mother crashes above the Arctic Circle, fourteen-year-old Allison Atwood is rescued by an Inupiat man who takes her back to his village, where she slowly comes to admire their very different way of life.
Author | : Mira Grant |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2013-10-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316218936 |
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From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes a vision of a decade in the future, where humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good health to a humble parasite — a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the Intestinal Bodyguard worm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system — even secretes designer drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wildest dreams. Now, years on, almost every human being has a SymboGen tapeworm living within them. But these parasites are getting restless. They want their own lives . . . and will do anything to get them. "A riveting near-future medical thriller that reads like the genetically-engineered love child of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton." —John Joseph Adams More from Mira Grant: Parasitology Parasite Symbiont Chimera Newsflesh Feed Deadline Blackout Feedback Rise