Biting Through The Skin

Author : Nina Mukerjee Furstenau
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609381858
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biting Through the Skin written by Nina Mukerjee Furstenau and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once a traveler’s tale, a memoir, and a mouthwatering cookbook, Biting through the Skin offers a first-generation immigrant’s perspective on growing up in America’s heartland. Author Nina Mukerjee Furstenau’s parents brought her from Bengal in northern India to the small town of Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1964, decades before you could find long-grain rice or plain yogurt in American grocery stores. Embracing American culture, the Mukerjee family ate hamburgers and softserve ice cream, took a visiting guru out on the lake in their motorboat, and joined the Shriners. Her parents transferred the cultural, spiritual, and family values they had brought with them to their children only behind the closed doors of their home, through the rituals of cooking, serving, and eating Bengali food and making a proper cup of tea. As a girl and a young woman, Nina traveled to her ancestral India as well as to college and to Peace Corps service in Tunisia. Through her journeys and her marriage to an American man whose grandparents hailed from Germany and Sweden, she learned that her family was not alone in being a small pocket of culture sheltered from the larger world. Biting through the Skin shows how we maintain our differences as well as how we come together through what and how we cook and eat. In mourning the partial loss of her heritage, the author finds that, ultimately, heritage always finds other ways of coming to meet us. In effect, it can be reduced to a 4 x 6-inch recipe card, something that can fit into a shirt pocket. It’s on just such tiny details of life that belonging rests. In this book, the author shares her shirt-pocket recipes and a great deal more, inviting readers to join her on her journey toward herself and toward a vital sense of food as culture and the mortar of community.

Author : Pamela Nagami, M.D.
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466827645
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bitten written by Pamela Nagami, M.D. and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've all been bitten. And we all have stories. The bite attacks featured in this dramatic book take place in big cities, small towns, and remote villages around the world and throughout history. Some are as familiar and contemporary as encounters with mosquitoes in New York City and snakes in southern California's Hollywood Hills or as exotic and foreign as the tsetse in equatorial Africa, the camel in Riyadh, and the Komodo dragon in Indonesia. While others, such as people biting other people---well, these are in a category of their own. Among the startling stories and fascinating facts in Bitten. o A six-year-old girl descends into weeks of extreme lassitude until a surgeon plucks an engorged tick from her scalp. o A diabetic living in the West Indies awakes one morning to a rat eating his left great and second toes. o A twenty-eight-year-old man loses a third of his nose to a bite by his wife. o In San Francisco, after a penile bite, a man develops "flesh-eating strep," which spreads to his lower abdomen. o Severe bites by rabid animals to the face and digits, because of their rich nerve supply, are the most likely to lead to rabies and have the shortest incubation periods. o Following the bite of a seal or contact with its tissues, sealers develop such agonizing pain and swelling in their bites that, far from medical care, they sometimes amputate their own fingers. o Perhaps the most devastating human bite wound injuries are those involving the nose; doctors in Boroko near Papua, New Guinea, reported a series of ninety-five human bites treated in the Division of Surgery from 1986 to 1992---twelve were to the nose, nine in women, and three in men, and in most of the cases, the biter was an angry spouse. With reports from medical journals, case histories, colleagues, and from her own twenty-eight-year career as a practicing physician and infectious diseases specialist, Pamela Nagami's Bitten offers readers intrigued by human infection and disease and mesmerized by creatures in p0the wild a compulsively readable narrative that is entertaining, sometimes disgusting, and always enjoyable.

Author : Kris Newby
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062896296
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bitten written by Kris Newby and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting thriller reminiscent of The Hot Zone, this true story dives into the mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time—Lyme disease—and of Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind it, revealing his secret role in developing bug-borne biological weapons, and raising terrifying questions about the genesis of the epidemic of tick-borne diseases affecting millions of Americans today. While on vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, Kris Newby was bitten by an unseen tick. That one bite changed her life forever, pulling her into the abyss of a devastating illness that took ten doctors to diagnose and years to recover: Newby had become one of the 300,000 Americans who are afflicted with Lyme disease each year. As a science writer, she was driven to understand why this disease is so misunderstood, and its patients so mistreated. This quest led her to Willy Burgdorfer, the Lyme microbe’s discoverer, who revealed that he had developed bug-borne bioweapons during the Cold War, and believed that the Lyme epidemic was started by a military experiment gone wrong. In a superb, meticulous work of narrative journalism, Bitten takes readers on a journey to investigate these claims, from biological weapons facilities to interviews with biosecurity experts and microbiologists doing cutting-edge research, all the while uncovering darker truths about Willy. It also leads her to uncomfortable questions about why Lyme can be so difficult to both diagnose and treat, and why the government is so reluctant to classify chronic Lyme as a disease. A gripping, infectious page-turner, Bitten will shed a terrifying new light on an epidemic that is exacting an incalculable toll on us, upending much of what we believe we know about it.

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Total Pages : 580 pages
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Total Pages : 612 pages
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Author : Carol Turkington
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816075093
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Skin and Skin Disorders, Third Edition written by Carol Turkington and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive resource on skin and skin disorders with current information on diseases of the skin and related topics with available treatments, and resources available.

Author : Frank Pierce Foster
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1358 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics written by Frank Pierce Foster and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1254 pages
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Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Security
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the State of the Public Health written by Great Britain. Department of Health and Social Security and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Ministry of Health
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
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Download or read book On the State of the Public Health written by Great Britain. Ministry of Health and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: