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
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human biology