What's Eating You? : : People and Parasites /

What's Eating You? : : People and Parasites / / Eugene H. Kaplan.

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In What's Eating You? Eugene Kaplan recounts the true and harrowing tales of his adventures with parasites, and in the process introduces readers to the intimately interwoven lives of host and parasite. Kaplan has spent his life traveling the globe exploring oceans and jungles, and incidentally...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Kaplan, Eugene H.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 30 b&w plates.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface: Personal Parasites
  • Acknowledgments
  • Apologia
  • On the Sacredness of Life
  • INTRODUCTION: The Saline Solution - An Inner Sea
  • Introduction
  • 1. Land of Smiles
  • 2. An Encounter with Jordan Rose
  • 3. I Had a Farm in Africa
  • 4. Death of a Mouse
  • 5. Intimate Relationships
  • 6. A Peek into the Anus of - My Child
  • 7. The Well-Hung Dog
  • 8. Fiery Serpent
  • 9. It Hardly Ever Happens
  • 10. The Anti-Semitic Tapeworm
  • 11. Mother Always Wanted Me to Be a Real Doctor
  • 12. Missus Murphy's Baby
  • 13. The Day I Flunked the Macho Test
  • 14. The Biblical Plagues
  • 15. Alley Cats and Seagulls
  • 16. A Better Mousetrap
  • 17. Scandals and Ghosts
  • 18. Spiny-Headed Monsters
  • 19. Bloodsucking Beasts
  • 20. Ode to a Cockroach
  • 21. Bats, Bugs, and Bloody Bites
  • 22. Little Fleas Have Littler Fleas
  • 23. How to Get Rid of Crabs
  • 24. Wild Virgins
  • INEXPLICABLE BEHAVIOR: Some Relationships Are More Intimate Than Others
  • Introduction
  • 25. Topsy-Turvy Worlds
  • 26. A Day in the Caribbean
  • 27. Tit, Tit, Tittie - Cuckoo
  • 28. The Game of Life: Name That Category
  • 29. Paean of Praise
  • 30. Tips for Travelers
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary
  • Selected References
  • Illustration Sources
  • Index

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