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Clarence Berton Roueché, Jr. (/ r uː ˈ ʃ eɪ / roo-SHAY; April 16, 1910 – April 28, 1994) was an American medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years. He also wrote twenty books, including Eleven Blue Men (1954), The Incurable Wound (1958), Feral (1974), and The Medical Detectives (1980).
- Berton Roueché
- 1958
Apr 29, 1994 · Berton Roueche, a staff writer at The New Yorker for nearly 50 years who originated the Annals of Medicine series that chronicled the war against disease in elegant narratives...
Dec 8, 2005 · The speaker was the wife of a man who had been treated with cortisone for his previously incurable periarteritis nodosa, and the author quoting her was Berton Roueché, who wrote . . .
- Barron H. Lerner
- 2005
Berton Roueché on a mysterious case of cyanosis—a type of poisoning so rare that, before 1948, only ten previous outbreaks of it had been recorded in medical literature.
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Mar 30, 1991 · What do Lyme’s disease in Long Island, a pig from New Jersey, and am amateur pianist have in common? All are subjects in three of 24 utterly fascinating tales of strange illnesses, rare diseases, poisons, and parasites—each tale a thriller of medical suspense by the incomparable Berton Roueché.
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The most famous account of the Donora incident is “The Fog,” written two years later for The New Yorker by Berton Roueché, who remains one of the most esteemed writers of medical thrillers, a genre he practically reinvented during his fifty-year career.
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