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Disease: The Story Of Disease And Mankind's Continuing Struggle Against It (2008)

by Mary J. Dobson(Favorite Author)

4.16 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1847240143 (ISBN13: 9781847240149)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Quercus

review 1: Huge glossy lavishly-illustrated coffee-table book (for the Addams Family's coffee table, I think). It gets five stars just for being such a physically attractive publication. The book is subdivided into four sections for Viral, Bacterial, Parasitic and Lifestyle diseases, and each of the 30-odd diseases gets at least a couple of double-page spreads so that a reader can dip in and browse. There are supporting blocks of background information, and plentiful quotes. The writing isn't terribly in-depth, but that hardly matters when the general idea is to fascinate, entertain and whet the appetite for more.
review 2: Miki got this at the book store for some light reading and since it was lying around I had to pick it up. Very interesting historical information... more regarding the diseases that have affected the world and some great information on the advances of medicine. I only wish that there was more pictures of what the diseases actually look like (is that morbid?) But sometimes the discriptions made it difficult for me to picture in my mind what it was even talking about and some of them just sound too similar to my unmedically trained mind. Just one note, make sure that you do not read this before bed because it did give me some very creepy dreams. less

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