What's eating you? : people and parasites

What's eating you? : people and parasites / Eugene H. Kaplan ; illustrated by Susan L. Kaplan and Sandy Chichester Rivkin.

In What's Eating You? Eugene Kaplan recounts the true and harrowing tales of his adventures with parasites, and in the process introduces readers to the intimately interwoven lives of host and parasite. Kaplan has spent his life traveling the globe exploring oceans and jungles, and incidentally...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaplan, Eugene H. (Eugene Herbert), 1932-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Parasites > Popular works.
Host-parasite relationships > Popular works.
MEDICAL > Parasitology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Host-parasite relationships
Parasites
Popular works
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Table of Contents:
  • On the sacredness of life
  • Introduction. The saline solution--an inner sea
  • Land of smiles
  • An encounter with Jordan Rose
  • I had a farm in Africa
  • Death of a mouse
  • Intimate relationships
  • A peek into the anus of--my child
  • The well-hung dog
  • Fiery serpent
  • It hardly ever happens
  • The anti-semitic tapeworm
  • Mother always wanted me to be a real doctor
  • Missus Murphy's baby
  • The day I flunked the macho test
  • The biblical plagues
  • Alley cats and seagulls
  • A better mousetrap
  • Scandals and ghosts
  • Spiny-headed monsters
  • Bloodsucking beasts
  • Ode to a cockroach
  • Bats, bugs, and bloody bites
  • Little fleas have littler fleas
  • How to get rid of crabs
  • Wild virgins
  • Inexplicable behavior: some relationships are more intimate than others
  • Topsy-turvy worlds
  • A day in the Caribbean
  • Tit, tit, tittie--cuckoo
  • The game of life: name that category
  • Paean of praise
  • Tips for travelers.

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