Bull's-eye
Unraveling the Mystery of Lyme Disease
Jonathan A. Edlow(Author)
Yale University Press
Published on 10. April 2003
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-300-09867-9 (ISBN)
Description
An account of the medical sleuthing that led to the discovery of Lyme disease. It not only tells the history of the discovery of Lyme disease over centuries and continents but also provides information about the disease and its treatment. In the process it offers details about the medical process: how physicians make a diagnosis, how they test its accuracy, and how scientific inquiry is influenced by its cultural context. Dr Jonathan Edlow begins his detective story in Lyme, Connecticut, with the accounts of two housewives who in the mid-1970s noticed a baffling array of symptoms afflicting members of their families and others in the community. As physicians studied this strange disease, they were led to reports of similar symptoms in other eras and countries. Edlow chronicles how connections were ultimately established between symptoms and tick bites, leading to the discovery of the stages of the disease, its specific microbial cause, and its treatment.
He brings the story into the 21st century by discussing legal and legislative issues as well as factors that have led to recent widespread outbreaks of Lyme disease and to the controversies over its diagnosis, vaccine, treatment and even its very definition.
He brings the story into the 21st century by discussing legal and legislative issues as well as factors that have led to recent widespread outbreaks of Lyme disease and to the controversies over its diagnosis, vaccine, treatment and even its very definition.
Reviews / Votes
"An extraordinary work that describes both Lyme disease the disease and Lyme disease the phenomenon. The author is a natural teacher." Stephen Malawista, professor of medicine, Yale University, who led the group that discovered Lyme disease.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
21 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
596 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-09867-9 (9780300098679)
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Person
Jonathan A. Edlow is vice chairman of the department of emergency medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He frequently lectures on Lyme disease and has written many medical detective stories that have appeared in the pages of Boston Magazine and Ladies' Home Journal.