num_pages: 368
description: We've all been bitten. And we all have stories.The bite attacks that Pamela Nagami, M.D., has chosen to write about in Bitten take place in big cities, small towns, and remote villages around the world and throughout history, locales as familiar as New York or Hollywood, or exotic as Africa, the Middle East, or Indonesia. They include a six-year-old girl who descended into weeks of extreme lassitude from a tick bite; a diabetic in the West Indies who awoke to find a rat eating two of his toes; a California man who developed "flesh-eating strep" following a penile bite; and more.With reports from medical journals, case histories, colleagues, and her own twenty-five-year career as a practicing physician and infectious diseases specialist, Pamela Nagami offers readers intrigued by infection, disease, and mesmerized by creatures in the wild a compulsively readable narrative that is entertaining, sometimes disturbing, and always engrossing.
language: English
title: Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
titlecomplete: Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
genres: Biology, Animals, Science, Health, Science Nature, Medicine, Nature, Medical, Nonfiction, History Of Medicine
ratings_count: 681
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin