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| Plot Summary of Maneater: and Other True Stories of a Life in Infectious Diseases |
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"The author, a specialist in "bugs and drugs," relates some of the case histories she has encountered in nearly three decades of identifying and fighting some of the more dire wee beasties that attack the human body. They range from flesh-eating strep and chicken pox (which can be fatal to some grownups) to worms in the brain and of course HIV. Some of her patients make it (though coming very close to the edge of mortality), and some don't. Though not the greatest prose stylist in the field of medical writing for laymen, Nagami is humane, compassionate, and very smart, and some of her cases read like detective stories."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
job/profession:
- doctor/nurse
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Phys disability/mental struggle?
Yes
Struggle with
- physical disability/sickness
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- doctor
Ethnicity
- Jew
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 2 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Misc setting
- scientific labs
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Book makes you feel?
- challenged
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- dying
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- None
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 0-25% of book
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