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The Woman with a Worm in Her Head

The Woman with a Worm in Her Head

And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease

By
Pamela Nagami
Pamela Nagami
2001

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52 books

Forensics

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Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat: And Other Gruesome Medical Tales
The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist

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74 books

Science

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Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat: And Other Gruesome Medical Tales
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

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52 books

Medicine

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The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat: And Other Gruesome Medical Tales
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
Get Well Soon

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163 books

Nonfiction

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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
The Botany of Desire
The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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20 books

Disease

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Get Well Soon
Vaccinated
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Revised and Updated For 2020
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

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201 books

History Of Medicine

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Mad, Bad And Sad
Strange Medicine
The Hot Zone
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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276 books

Medicine

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Unwell Women
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Mad, Bad And Sad
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Strange Medicine

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101 books

Narrative Nonfiction

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The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Fun home
El Deafo
Night Flying Woman
Adrift
Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
Rebent Sinner

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16 books

Disease

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The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases
Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions
Brain storms
The Doctors' Plague
Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers
The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease