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

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ISBN-10: 0393325466

ISBN-13: 9780393325461

Edition: N/A

Authors: Robert S. Desowitz

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List price: $22.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.82" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Robert S. Desowitz, a leading epidemiologist, is the author of New Guinea Tape Worms and Jewish Grandmothers and The Malaria Capers, among other books. He lives in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Housekeeping Prologue
Introduction: Water under My Grandmother's Bridge
West Nile-on-the-Danube: The Virus before 1999
West Nile-on-the-Hudson: The Virus, 1999 and Beyond
The DDT Jitters
The Malaria $Millions
Malaria: Millions for the Vaccine but Not One Cent for Defense
The Curious Case of the Wake-Up-from-the-Dead Drug and the Bearded Lady
Everybody's Making Money but Tchaikovsky
The New Guinea Retrovirus and the Federal Bodysnatchers
We're Having a Heat Wave, a Tropical Heat Wave
Loose Stools and Troubled Waters: Cryptosporidiosis
Index