The Woman With A Worm In Her Head

Author : Pamela Nagami, M.D.
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466842148
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman with a Worm in Her Head written by Pamela Nagami, M.D. and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2002-12-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A normal, healthy woman becomes host to a pork tapeworm that is burrowing into her brain and disabling her motor abilities. A handsome man contracts Chicken Pox and ends up looking like the victim of a third degree burn. A vigorous young athlete is bitten by an insect and becomes a target for flesh-eating strep. Even the most innocuous everyday activities such as eating a salad for lunch, getting bitten by an insect, and swimming in the sea bring human beings into contact with dangerous, often deadly microorganisms. In The Woman with a Worm in Her Head, Dr. Pamela Nagami reveals-through real-life cases-the sobering facts about some of the world's most horrific diseases: the warning signs, the consequences, treatments, and most compellingly, what it feels like to make medical and ethical decisions that can mean the difference between life and death. Unfailingly precise, calmly instructive, and absolutely engrossing, The Woman with the Worm in Her Head offers both useful information and enjoyable reading.

Author : Pamela Nagami
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781422390221
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman with a Worm in Her Head written by Pamela Nagami and published by . This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordering a salad for lunch? When Danielle Jordon ordered one she had no idea that she was to become host to an organism that 6 years later would grow into a worm that would burrow into her brain. Been bitten by an insect? This gave Allan Roth flesh-eating strep, which resulted in his skin shedding like a snake. Walking along a dusty road? The dust might contain fungus spores that will kill the person who simply breathes them into their lungs. These hazards & others are examined in this fascinating foray into the world of Nagami, who specializes in finding the cause of the strange infections presented by her patients. She teaches us what these diseases are, & how it feels to make med. & ethical decisions that can mean the diff. between life & death.

Author : Pamela Nagami, M.D.
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312306016
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman with a Worm in Her Head written by Pamela Nagami, M.D. and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-12-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authority on infectious diseases discusses the various patients she has encountered and treated, sharing her experiences making medical and ethical decisions that can mean the difference between life and death.

Author : Pamela Nagami
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312318239
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bitten written by Pamela Nagami and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-09 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 that Pamela Nagami has chosen to write about in this book take place all around the world, and throughout history. With reports from medical journals, case histories, colleagues, and her own career as a practicing physician and infectious disease specialist, the author offers readers intrigued by infection, disease, and mesmerized by creatures in the wild a compulsively readable narrative that is entertaining, sometimes disturbing, and always engrossing. -- Publisher description.

Author : Mira Grant
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316218936
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parasite written by Mira Grant and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes a vision of a decade in the future, where humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good health to a humble parasite — a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the Intestinal Bodyguard worm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system — even secretes designer drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wildest dreams. Now, years on, almost every human being has a SymboGen tapeworm living within them. But these parasites are getting restless. They want their own lives . . . and will do anything to get them. "A riveting near-future medical thriller that reads like the genetically-engineered love child of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton." —John Joseph Adams More from Mira Grant: Parasitology Parasite Symbiont Chimera Newsflesh Feed Deadline Blackout Feedback Rise

Author : Viola Canales
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN 13 : 0375840893
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tequila Worm written by Viola Canales and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sofia comes from a family of storytellers. Here are her tales of growing up in the barrio, full of the magic and mystery of family traditions: making Easter cascarones, celebrating el Dia de los Muertos, preparing for quincea–era, rejoicing in the Christmas nacimiento, and curing homesickness by eating the tequila worm. When Sofia is singled out to receive a scholarship to an elite boarding school, she longs to explore life beyond the barrio, even though it means leaving her family to navigate a strange world of rich, privileged kids. It's a different mundo, but one where Sofia's traditions take on new meaning and illuminate her path.

Author : Maryann Easley
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9781417647910
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am the Ice Worm written by Maryann Easley and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the plane carrying her to visit her mother crashes above the Arctic Circle, fourteen-year-old Allison Atwood is rescued by an Inupiat man who takes her back to his village, where she slowly comes to admire their very different way of life.

Author : Mark Bowden
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802195121
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worm written by Mark Bowden and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Black Hawk Down, the gripping story of the Conficker worm—the cyberattack that nearly toppled the world. The Conficker worm infected its first computer in November 2008, and within a month had infiltrated 1.5 million computers in 195 countries. Banks, telecommunications companies, and critical government networks—including British Parliament and the French and German military—became infected almost instantaneously. No one had ever seen anything like it. By January 2009, the worm lay hidden in at least eight million computers, and the botnet of linked computers it had created was big enough that an attack might crash the world. In this “masterpiece” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Mark Bowden expertly lays out a spellbinding tale of how hackers, researchers, millionaire Internet entrepreneurs, and computer security experts found themselves drawn into a battle between those determined to exploit the Internet and those committed to protecting it.

Author : Frank Huyler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520262514
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blood of Strangers written by Frank Huyler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories set in the ER introduces a neurosurgeon who practices witchcraft, a trauma surgeon who commits suicide, a wounded murderer, and a man chased across the New Mexico desert by a missile.

Author : Kathleen McAuliffe
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544193229
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Is Your Brain On Parasites written by Kathleen McAuliffe and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Engrossing … [An] expedition through the hidden and sometimes horrifying microbial domain.” —Wall Street Journal “Fascinating—and full of the kind of factoids you can't wait to share.” —Scientific American Parasites can live only inside another animal and, as Kathleen McAuliffe reveals, these tiny organisms have many evolutionary motives for manipulating the behavior of their hosts. With astonishing precision, parasites can coax rats to approach cats, spiders to transform the patterns of their webs, and fish to draw the attention of birds that then swoop down to feast on them. We humans are hardly immune to their influence. Organisms we pick up from our own pets are strongly suspected of changing our personality traits and contributing to recklessness and impulsivity—even suicide. Germs that cause colds and the flu may alter our behavior even before symptoms become apparent. Parasites influence our species on the cultural level, too. Drawing on a huge body of research, McAuliffe argues that our dread of contamination is an evolved defense against parasites. The horror and revulsion we are programmed to feel when we come in contact with people who appear diseased or dirty helped pave the way for civilization, but may also be the basis for major divisions in societies that persist to this day. This Is Your Brain on Parasites is both a journey into cutting-edge science and a revelatory examination of what it means to be human. “If you’ve ever doubted the power of microbes to shape society and offer us a grander view of life, read on and find yourself duly impressed.” —Heather Havrilesky, Bookforum