health + medicine

Book Reviews

• Ann Aschengrau, George R. Seage III: Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health*
  - a non-mathematical introduction for health scientists
• Frances Ashcroft: Life at the Extremes
  The Science of Survival
• R. Barker Bausell: Snake Oil Science
  The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Patrice Bourdelais: Epidemics Laid Low
  - a history of public health responses in Western Europe
• Kenneth J. Carpenter: Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B
  A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure
• Lise Eliot: Early Intelligence*
  How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
• Paul Farmer: Infections and Inequalities
  The Modern Plagues
• Scott Forbes: A Natural History of Families
  - evolutionary biology and medicine
• Russell Foster, Leon Kreitzman: Rhythms of Life*
  The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing
• Mel Greaves: Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy*
  - cellular biology and human evolution, history and society
• Sandra Hempel: The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump
  John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
• William Jack: Principles of Health Economics for Developing Countries
  - an abstract but accessible survey
• Peter E. Pormann, Emilie Savage-Smith: Medieval Islamic Medicine*
  - origins, theory, practice, social context
• Joan Stigliani: The Computer User's Survival Guide
  - preventing and coping with RSI, eyestrain, stress, and radiation

See also: human biology