Ova and parasites: Medical parasitology for the laboratory technologist

Desowitz, Robert S.

Lippincott Williams and Wilkin

This “real life thriller” (Kirkus Reviews) of how tropical diseases have invaded North americanca is a fascinating mix of history and scientific adventure and “bulges with astonishing and instructive information” (Civilization). We have long believed that our sanitized Western world is safe from microbes and parasites of the tropics but according to Desowitz this is not so. Tropical diseases are as american as the heart attack.

Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World

Science & Math

History & Philosophy

Harvest Books

A medical ecologist examines the threat posed by disease-carrying parasites and insects and identifies the conditions--miracle drugs, destruction of natural controls--that have encouraged them to flourish

New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Avon/Books

Traces the history of disease control, discusses inoculations, antigens, antibodies, T cells, and AIDS, and looks at what happens when the human body gets sick

A Thorn in the Starfish: How the Human Immune System Works

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Examines two diseases, Kala azar--the black sickness endemic in India and spread by the midge--and malaria, exploring their effects from many different perspectives

Malaria Capers: More Tales of Parasites and People, Research and Reality

History

Europe

Arguing that tropical diseases such as malaria are as American as heart attacks, Desowitz (epidemiology, U. of North Carolina) chronicles this unwanted baggage from the first American immigrants 50,000 years ago to jet-hopping Doomsday microbes. Pinta, a strain of syphilis, was native Americans' revenge on Columbus. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

Twenty Years ago the world slept, confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. Our wake-up call sounded at the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic. Then came more unfamiliar pathogens in its wake, such as the West Nile Virus. Meanwhile, the neglected diseases of the Third World, including malaria and African sleeping sickness, festered -- their victims salvageable only by unaffordable drugs. Robert S. Desowitz traces the histories of these diseases and the issues we must confront -- the morality and legality of patent laws; the effect of global warming on epidemics; public support for the commercial biomedical industry; the growing dissociation of clinicians and public health professionals; and the terrifying shadow of bioterrorism.

Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of People, Parasites, and Politics

W.W.Norton&Company

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 seemed sure to make us all safe from such invisible assault. It was not to be. The mosquito has become resistant to DDT; malaria is on the rise; although tapeworms rarely turn up any longer in the most lovingly prepared New York City gefilte fish, a worm may inhabit your sashimi; some strains of gonorrhea actually thrive on penicillin; there is even a parasite for the higher tax brackets―the "nymph of Nantucket"; and there are new ailments―legionnaire's disease, Lassa fever, and new strains of influenza. In the long run, one might bet on the insects and the germs. Meanwhile Dr. Robert Desowitz has written a delightful and instructive book.

Business & Money

Economics

“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 entertain, educate, and enthuse without either trivializing the complexity of the subject or underestimating the intelligence of the reader.” ―British Medical Journal Dr. Desowitz describes the revolutionary discoveries made by Jenner, Pasteur, Metchnikoff, and Ehrlich and what we know about immunology today. His topics include the role of nutrition, the challenge of developing an AIDS vaccine, and the potential of genetic-engineering techniques.

Thorn in the Starfish: The Immune System and How It Works

"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, climate and politics have affected their spread and containment." ―New York Times
Why, Robert S. Desowitz asks, has biotechnical research on malaria produced so little when it had promised so much? An expert in tropical diseases, Desowtiz searches for answers in this provocative book.

The Malaria Capers: Tales of Parasites and People

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Ova and parasites: Medical parasitology for the laboratory technologist

Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World

New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People

A Thorn in the Starfish: How the Human Immune System Works

Malaria Capers: More Tales of Parasites and People, Research and Reality

Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World

Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of People, Parasites, and Politics

New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People

Thorn in the Starfish: The Immune System and How It Works

The Malaria Capers: Tales of Parasites and People