''The Deadly Dinner Party and Other Medical Detective Stories'' (2009, ) is a nonfiction book by Jonathan A. Edlow, MD about medical mysteries.
The book contains fifteen real-life stories of everyday people caught up in medical crises that take deduction and detective work to solve, and to determine a correct diagnosis. The book has been compared to the "medical mystery" books of
Berton Roueché
Clarence Berton Roueché, Jr. ( ; April 16, 1910 – April 28, 1994) was an American medical writer who wrote for ''The New Yorker'' magazine for almost fifty years. He wrote twenty books, including '' Eleven Blue Men'' (1954), ''The Incurable ...
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The book is published by
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day and Clarence Day, grandsons of Benjamin Day, and became a department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and ope ...
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Reception
In a review for
New Scientist
''New Scientist'' is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology. Based in London, it publishes weekly English-language editions in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. An editorially separate organ ...
, Druin Burch wrote that the "collection of bite-sized essays about obscure infections, poisons and diseases
€¦make an enjoyable and interesting book. The stories don’t flow, but they do add up to more than a list of anecdotes
€¦"
In
The New York Review of Books
''The New York Review of Books'' (or ''NYREV'' or ''NYRB'') is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs. Published in New York City, it is inspired by the idea that the discussion of ...
, Jerome Groopman described how Edlow wrote in "clear and fluid prose" about unusual diagnoses and the ultimate need for a "discerning doctor".
See also
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Diagnosis
Diagnosis (: diagnoses) is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon. Diagnosis is used in a lot of different academic discipline, disciplines, with variations in the use of logic, analytics, and experience, to determine " ...
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Medical ethics
Medical ethics is an applied branch of ethics which analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research. Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. T ...
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How Doctors Think
''How Doctors Think'' is a book released in March 2007 by Jerome Groopman, the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and staff writ ...
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Fatal Care: Survive in the U.S. Health System''
References
External links
Review of book in ''The New York Review of Books'' (November 5, 2009)
2009 non-fiction books
Medical books
Yale University Press books
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