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
• Ron Barrett, George J. Armelagos: An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections*
  - subsistence, settlement, and social organisation
• 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
• Mikhail Bulgakov: A Country Doctor's Notebook
  - stories of medical work in rural Russia in 1917
• Helen Bynum: Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis
  - the social and medical history of a disease
• Kenneth J. Carpenter: Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B
  A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure
• Dorothy H. Crawford: Viruses: A Very Short Introduction
• Thomas M. Daniel: Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis
  - an introduction to the disease, and six lives
• Lise Eliot: Early Intelligence*
  How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
• Imogen Evans, et al.: Testing Treatments
  Better Research for Better Healthcare
• 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
• Gary Fuller: The Invisible Killer
  The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution and How We Can Fight Back
• Johan Giesecke: Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology*
  - an accessible introduction with many case studies
• Mel Greaves: Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy*
  - cellular biology and human evolution, history and society
• Ramesh Hariharan: Genomic Quirks: The Search for Spelling Errors
  - nine cases show how genomics is changing modern medicine
• 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
• Alan Levinovitz: The Gluten Lie
  And Other Myths about What you Eat
• Michael B. A. Oldstone: Viruses, Plagues, and History
  Past, Present, and Future
• Peter E. Pormann, Emilie Savage-Smith: Medieval Islamic Medicine*
  - origins, theory, practice, social context
• Irwin W. Sherman: The Elusive Malaria Vaccine: Miracle or Mirage?
  - a century of immunological research
• Simon Singh, Edzard Ernst: Trick or Treatment?
  Alternative Medicine on Trial
• Tim Smedley: Clearing the Air
  The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution
• Joan Stigliani: The Computer User's Survival Guide
  - preventing and coping with RSI, eyestrain, stress, and radiation
• Peter Walker: The Miracle Pill
  Why a sedentary world is getting it all wrong
• Gareth Williams: Angel of Death
  The Story of Smallpox

See also: human biology