Desowitz: The Malaria Capers: More Tales Of Parasites & People – Research & Reality (cloth): More Tales of Parasites and People, Research and Reality - Hardcover

Desowitz, Robert S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039303013X ISBN 13: 9780393030136

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992

Synopsis

A world renowned epidemoiologist explains the history and present dilemmas of the tangled and often discouraging world of tropical diseases. This book is about two of those diseases: the "black sickness", which is endemic in Indian and Bangladesh; and malaria, target of 100 years of research and still raging unabated.

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Review:

Just as it was not necessary to be an astrophysicist to feel the grandeur and scope of Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time," it is not necessary to be a parasitologist or specialist in tropical medicine to relate to the drama, tragedy and even romance of Desowitz's fascinating and provocative story. . . . Interesting and important. "

Like such eminent science writers as Stephen Jay Gould and Lewis Thomas, Mr. Desowitz manages to make the basic principles of his subject immediately comprehensible to the general reader. He has also succeeded in giving us a profound appreciation of the ways in which scientific and medical knowledge advances, through hypothesis, error and experiment, through serendipity, dedication, and perseverance.--Michiko Kakutani

Like a novelist, [Desowitz] draws the reader into the human tragedy of disease. . . . Rich in historical-medical detective stories.--Betty Ann Kevles

A gripping account of how a one-celled protozoan has triumphed over modern science.

From the Back Cover:

Like such eminent science writers as Stephen Jay Gould and Lewis Thomas, Mr. Desowitz manages to make the basic principles of his subject immediately comprehensible to the general reader. He has also succeeded in giving us a profound appreciation of the ways in which scientific and medical knowledge advances, through hypothesis, error and experiment, through serendipity, dedication, and perseverance.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 039303013X
• ISBN 13: 9780393030136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288