This will kill you
Subtitle: a guide to the ways in which we go
By: H.P. Newquist and Rich Maloof.
Contributors: Maloof, Rich.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780312540623
Subjects: Death -- Causes
Description: Examines what happens to the human body when death is caused by diseases, deadly bugs, animal predators, natural disasters, and other tragic accidents; and also features a mentions notable deaths throughout history with a death rating system, and more.
Table of contents: title: 2-minute med school; title: Description of icons; title: Alligators; title: Alzheimer's disease; title: Anaphylaxis; title: Anthrax; title: Arsenic; title: The bends; title: Black widow spider; title: Bombs; title: Botulism; title: Brain aneurysm; title: Bullet wound; title: Burning at the stake; title: Cancer; title: Car versus tree; title: Copd; title: Death cap mushroom; title: Dehydration in the sahara desert; title: Dogs; title: Diabetes type 2; title: Drinking binge; title: A drink of drain cleaner; title: Drowning at sea; title: Drug overdose at a rock show; title: Ebola virus; title: Executions; title: Falling from a mountain top; title: Fatal insomnia; title: Freezing; title: Gangrene; title: Garrote; title: Going over Niagara Falls; title: Great white shark; title: Guinea worm; title: Hairdryer in the bathtub; title: Heart attack; title: Helminth parasites; title: Hemlock; title: Hepatitis; title: HIV/AIDS; title: Hole in the head; title: House fire; title: Hunger strike; title: Jumping off a bridge; title: Knife wound; title: Komodo dragon; title: Lead poisoning; title: Lightning on the golf course; title: Lions, tigers & bears; title: Meningitis; title: Mosquito; title: Natural disasters; title: Nerve gas (sarin); title: Nuclear explosion; title: Oleander; title: Peptic ulcer; title: The plague; title: Playing professional sports; title: Pneumonia; title: Poison dart frog; title: Polonium poisoning; title: Pufferfish; title: Radiation exposure; title: Red imported fire ants; title: Ricin; title: Septicemia; title: Smallpox; title: Snakes; title: Space suit malfunction; title: Stampeding and trampling (herd animals); title: Stroke; title: Syphilis; title: Tetanus; title: Trying to beat a locomotive across the tracks; title: Tuberculosis; title: Unscheduled plane landing; title: Working in a coal mine.