The Deadly Dinner Party: and Other Medical Detective Stories
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780300125580 (0300125585)
Publish date: September 22nd 2009
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Science,
Mystery,
Health,
Medical,
Crime,
True Crime,
Medicine
Highly accessible to the layperson about the history of popular poisons and conditions.
Stories of unusual diseases and unexpected outbreaks. The problem is, this is a pretty well-trodden subject, and Edlow doesn't add anything to it. He's got some interesting anecdotes, but his writing is flighty and scattered. Too many tangents; not enough new material. It's not bad, but there ar...
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