The Medical Detectives - Softcover

Roueche, Berton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671544497 ISBN 13: 9780671544492

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1982

Synopsis

Mysteries of modern American medicine--involving strange allergies, food poisonings, environmental contaminations, and outbreaks of mass hysteria--are solved in engrossing and instructive narratives conducted by a renowned medical writer

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Review

Berton Roueche s Annals of Medicine pieces enriched us for well over a quarter of a century. They have become classics in a genre he himself created single-handedly. The American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters
Roueche s writings have become unofficial textbooks for medical students, interns, practitioners, scientists, and for that matter anyone interested in human illness. They are engrossing, instructive, accurate, and marvelous fun to read, and the present collection represents Roueche at his best. Lewis Thomas, MD, author of The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail"

About the Author

BERTON ROUECHÉ joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1944. His “Annals of Medicine” department and his stature as a medical journalist have been recognized by numerous awards, including those from the Lasker Foundation and the American Medical Association. He lived and worked in Amagansett, Long Island, for many years, and died, at age 83, in 1994.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671544497
• ISBN 13: 9780671544492
• Binding: Paperback