The Deadly Dinner Party

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The Deadly Dinner Party and Other Medical Detective Stories
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AuthorJonathan A. Edlow
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
Publisher Yale University Press
Publication date
2009
Publication place United States
ISBN 978-0-300-12558-0

The Deadly Dinner Party and Other Medical Detective Stories (2009, ISBN   978-0-300-12558-0) is a nonfiction book by Jonathan A. Edlow, MD about medical mysteries. [1]

Contents

The book contains fifteen real-life stories of everyday people caught up in medical crises that take deduction and detective work to solve, and to determine a correct diagnosis. [2] [3] The book has been compared to the "medical mystery" books of Berton Roueché. [4] The book is published by Yale University Press.

Reception

In a review for New Scientist, Druin Burch wrote that the "collection of bite-sized essays about obscure infections, poisons and diseases […] make an enjoyable and interesting book. The stories don’t flow, but they do add up to more than a list of anecdotes […]." [4]

In The New York Review of Books, Jerome Groopman described how Edlow wrote in "clear and fluid prose" about unusual diagnoses and the ultimate need for a "discerning doctor". [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Jonathan Edlow | Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians | International Projects Emergency Medicine International Projects". Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians | International Projects. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  2. ↑ "The Deadly Dinner Party". Yale University Press. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  3. ↑ Edlow, Jonathan A. (2009). The Deadly Dinner Party: and Other Medical Detective Stories. Yale University Press. ISBN   978-0-300-12558-0.
  4. 1 2 Burch, Druin (2009-10-07). "Review: The Deadly Dinner Party by Jonathan Edlow; Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders". New Scientist. Archived from the original on 2023-03-06.
  5. ↑ Groopman, Jerome (2009-11-05). "Diagnosis: What Doctors are Missing". The New York Review. Archived from the original on 2021-09-12.


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