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A thrilling historical account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London-and a brilliant exploration of how Dr. John Snow's solution revolutionized the way we think about disease, cities, science, and the modern world. From the dynamic thinker routinely compared to Malcolm Gladwell, E. O. Wilson, and James Gleick, The Ghost Map is a riveting page-turner with a real-life historical hero that... (more)

The Coming Plague

Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

by Laurie Garrett

A critically acclaimed study documents the outbreaks of newly discovered diseases around the globe, such as HIV, Lassa, and Ebola, and explores the social and environmental deterioration that helps to keep such viruses alive. Reprint. Tour. NYT.

The Great Influenza

The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

by John M. Barry

At the height of WWI, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of... (more)

Epidemiology

by Leon Gordis

The 2nd Edition of Epidemiology teaches the basic principles and methods of epidemiology in an understandable and interesting manner. Both the underlying concepts as well as the practical uses of epidemiology in both public health and clinical practice are emphasized. The book is organized into three sections: Section One focuses on the epidemiologic approach to assessing the extent and severity of disease in the... (more)

The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS

The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS

by Elizabeth Pisani

A flame-throwing epidemiologist talks about sex, drugs, and the mistakes (dismal), ideologies (vicious), and hopes (realistic) of international AIDS prevention. When people ask Elizabeth Pisani what she does for a living, she says, "sex and drugs." As an epidemiologist researching AIDS, she's been involved with international efforts to halt the disease for fourteen... (more)

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks

by Steven Johnson

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

by Laurie Garrett

In this meticulously researched and ultimately explosive new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett takes readers across the globe to reveal how a series of potential and present public health catastrophes form a terrifying portrait of real global disaster in the making.

Status Epilepticus: Mechanisms and Management

Status Epilepticus: Mechanisms and Management

Interest in status epilepticus—the most extreme form of epilepsy, involving continuous seizures—has surged in the last 20 years. Since 1979 there have been over 4,000 publications on the subject, including more than 1,700 in the last five years. No other text provides such a comprehensive review of the recent advances in the field of status epilepticus. The book focuses on the two areas in which progress has... (more)

Applied Epidemiology: Theory to Practice

Applied Epidemiology: Theory to Practice

This text focuses on areas of public health practice in which the systematic application of epidemiologic methods can have a large and positive impact. It describes how best to apply traditional epidemiologic methods for determining disease etiology to "real-life" problems in public health and health services research. Brownson and Petitti's much-needed book bridges the gap between theoretical epidemiology and... (more)

Understanding Health Care Outcomes Research

Understanding Health Care Outcomes Research

by Robert L. Kane

The first edition of this ground-breaking book was the pioneer text on outcomes research. It's a resource no quality-minded health care professional should be without. Both practical and applied, this book makes sense of the new science of studying health care outcomes - a vital process in health care quality assurance. Understanding Health Care Outcomes Research, Second Edition, gives readers a wealth of expert... (more)

Biostatistical Methods in Epidemiology

by Stephen C. Newman

An introduction to classical biostatistical methods in epidemiology Biostatistical Methods in Epidemiology provides an introduction to a wide range of methods used to analyze epidemiologic data, with a focus on nonregression techniques. The text includes an extensive discussion of measurement issues in epidemiology, especially confounding. Maximum likelihood, Mantel-Haenszel, and weighted least squares methods... (more)

Dyspepsia (Key Diseases Series) (Key Diseases Series)

Dyspepsia (Key Diseases Series) (Key Diseases Series)

by David A. Johnson, Philip O. Katz, Donald O. Castell

Dyspepsia provides the latest essential information organized in an easy-to-use format. Topics include epidemiology, etiology, natural history, motility problems, quality-of-life issues, and alternative therapies. The complexities of gastroesophageal reflux disease and Helicobacter pylori infection are explored. Clinical Vignettes demonstrate how experts approach frequently encountered dilemmas by using... (more)

An Introduction to Epidemiology

by Thomas C. Timmreck, Ray M. Merril

Extensively revised by esteemed professor Ray M. Merrill, this clear and well-organized introductory text covers relevant topics in epidemiology. Introduction to Epidemiology, Fourth Edition is intended for introductory courses in health-related programs at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. Topics covered include Descriptive Epidemiology and Experimental Studies in Epidemiology. It will also... (more)

The Andromeda Strain

by Michael Crichton

The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outerfringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of... (more)

De l'inégalité parmi les sociétés

by Jared Diamond

Plagues and Peoples

by William H. McNeill

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the... (more)

Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC

by Joseph McCormick

A pioneering epidemiologist describes his work for the Centers for Disease Control, relates his work on its Biosafety Level 4 containment facility, and offers a riveting firsthand look at some of the plagues and biological catastrophes confronting the world today. Tour.

Ebola

by William T. Close

IT STRIKES WITHOUT WARNING--A HORRIFYING, LETHAL DISEASE WITH NO NAME. AND NO CURE. . . . Now, from the molten center of the "hot zone," comes a terrifying, completely authentic novel of medical suspense by William T. Close, M.D., the American physician who lived in Zaire for sixteen years, and who worked desperately to contain the first outbreak of the virus in 1976. Haunted by the images from this wrenching... (more)

Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

by Md Nesse, Randolph M., Phd Williams, George C., Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams

The answers are in this groundbreaking book by two founders of the emerging science of Darwinian medicine, who deftly synthesize the latest research on disorders ranging from allergies to Alzheimer's and from cancer to Huntington's chorea. Why We Get Sick compels readers to reexamine the age-old attitudes toward sickness. Line drawings.

Studying a Study and Testing a Test: How to Read the Medical Literature

Studying a Study and Testing a Test: How to Read the Medical Literature

by Richard K. Riegelman

In today's rapidly changing world of clinical practice, old assumptions quickly fall under the weight of new evidence. But to make effective clinical decisions, you must face a deluge of data published in the health research literature. With this best-selling text as your guide, you'll discover a concise, stepwise program that will help you evaluate clinical studies, identify flaws in study design, interpret... (more)

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by Steven Johnson

Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

by Laurie Garrett

The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

by John M. Barry

by Leon Gordis

by Elizabeth Pisani

by Steven Johnson

by Laurie Garrett

by Robert L. Kane

by Stephen C. Newman

by David A. Johnson, Philip O. Katz, Donald O. Castell

by Thomas C. Timmreck, Ray M. Merril

by Michael Crichton

by Jared Diamond

by William H. McNeill

by Joseph McCormick

by William T. Close

by Md Nesse, Randolph M., Phd Williams, George C., Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams

by Richard K. Riegelman