Robert S. Desowitz (1926—2008) was a leading epidemiologist and the author of New Guinea Tape Worms and Jewish Grandmothers and The Malaria Capers, among other books.
5 Ebooks by Robert S. Desowitz
Robert S. Desowitz: Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World
We live in a medical fool’s paradise, comforted, believing our sanitized Western world is safe from the microbes and parasites of the tropics. Not so, nor was it ever so.
Past–and present–tell us …
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Robert S. Desowitz: Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics
‘[Desowitz’s] stories…rank among the best current examples of medical detective prose.’—Booklist Twenty years ago the world slept, confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastatin …
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Robert S. Desowitz: Thorn in the Starfish: The Immune System and How It Works
“Gives the reader the feeling of being granted a ringside seat to an exciting series of events. . . .This eminent scientist and writer conveys his enthusiasm for the subject. . . .He has managed to e …
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Robert S. Desowitz: The Malaria Capers: Tales of Parasites and People
‘Reads like a murder mystery…[Desowitz] writes with uncommon lucidity and verse, leaving the reader with a vivid understanding of malaria and other tropical diseases, and the ways in which culture, c …
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Robert S. Desowitz: New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People
The medical tapestry of the world is full of organisms too small to see, carried by flying and creeping creatures too numerous to eradicate. A while ago, DDT and the antimalarial drug chloroquine see …
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