"All books by Robert S. Desowitz"
Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics
Paperback, 2004
"[Desowitz's] stories...rank among the best current examples of medical detective prose."—Booklist
New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People
Paperback, 1987
The medical tapestry of the world is full of organisms too small to see, carried by flying and creeping creatures too numerous to eradicate.
Thorn in the Starfish: The Immune System and How It Works
Paperback, 1989
The Malaria Capers: Tales of Parasites and People
Paperback, 1993
"Reads like a murder mystery…[Desowitz] writes with uncommon lucidity and verse, leaving the reader with a vivid understanding of malaria and other tropical diseases, and the ways in which culture,...
Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World
Paperback, 2007
We live in a medical fool's paradise, comforted, believing our sanitized Western world is safe from the microbes and parasites of the tropics. Not so, nor was it ever so.
Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics
E Book, 2015
"[Desowitz's] stories...rank among the best current examples of medical detective prose."—Booklist