The Ghost Disease  -  Michael Howell and Peter Ford

And 12 Other Stories of Detective Work in the Medical Field

KORTE INHOUD

The stories tell of disaster and thiumphs, of heroes and villans - both human and molecular: the diagnostic dilemma posed by the Epping epidemic; the truth behind the sorcerer's curse of 'kuru' in New Guinea; a poisonous Renaissance ceiling in the American ambassador's residence in Rome; the return of the plague in twentieth-century rural England; the spectre of the Marquis de Sade haunting post-war London; a salutary reminder of the constant threat of puerperal fever; and the astonishing revelation about the affliction of Robert the Bruce revealed by his skull...
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1986 Uitgever: Penguin 386 paginas Taal: Engels