Newquist, H. P.

This will kill you : a guide to the ways in which we go / H.P. Newquist, Rich Maloof ; illustrations by Jim Shinnick. - 1st ed. - New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2009. - xvii, 328 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Two-minute med school -- Description of icons -- Alligators -- Alzheimer's disease -- Anaphylaxis -- Anthrax -- Arsenic -- The bends -- Black widow spider -- Bombs -- Botulism -- Brain aneurysm -- Bullet wound -- Burning at the stake -- Cancer -- Car versus tree -- COPD -- Death cap mushroom -- Dehydration in the Sahara Desert -- Dogs -- Diabetes type 2 -- Drinking binge -- A drink of drain cleaner -- Drowning at sea -- Drug overdose at a rock show -- Ebola virus -- Executions -- Falling from a mountaintop -- Fatal insomnia -- Freezing -- Gangrene -- Garrote -- Going over Niagara Falls -- Great white shark -- Guinea worm -- Hairdryer in the bathtub -- Heart attack -- Helminth parasites -- Hemlock -- Hepatitis -- HIV/AIDS -- Hole in the head -- House fire -- Hunger strike -- Jumping off a bridge -- Knife wound -- Komodo dragon -- Lead poisoning -- Lightning on the golf course -- Lions, tigers, and bears -- Meningitis -- Mosquito -- Natural disasters -- Nerve gas (sarin) -- Nuclear explosion -- Oleander -- Peptic ulcer -- The plague -- Playing professional sports -- Pneumonia -- Poison dart frog -- Polonium poisoning -- Pufferfish -- Radiation exposure -- Red imported fire ants -- Ricin -- Septicemia -- Smallpox -- Snakes -- Space suit malfunction -- Stampeding and trampling (herd animals) -- Stroke -- Syphilis -- Tetanus -- Trying to beat a locomotive across the tracks -- Tuberculosis -- Unscheduled plane landing -- Working in a coal mine.

ISBN: 9780312540623 0312540620

LCCN: 2009006908

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Death--Causes.

LC Class. No.: RA1063 / .N49 2009