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  • Fevers and Cultures

    Lessons for Surveillance, Prevention and Control

    by George Pollock ...
    This book compares the methods of surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases in countries selected for their different situations and approaches. Based on a comprehensive study including local interviews with key individuals, supported by relevant reports and documents, it highlights the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches and suggests practical improvements for ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • An Epidemiological Odyssey

    The Evolution of Communicable Disease Control

    Edited by George Pollock ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book attempts to set communicable diseases and the efforts to control them in a social and historical context. The primary focus is on England with its particular history, culture and traditions. The timescale covered is extensive and ambitious, and the many strands that came together in the nineteenth century to form the English public health service are clearly highlighted. However the main ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Public Health

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Virginia Berridge ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Public health is a term much used in the media, by health professionals, and by activists. At the national or the local level there are ministries or departments of public health, whilst international agencies such as the World Health Organisation promote public health policies, and regional organisations such as the European Union have public health funding and policies. But what do we mean when ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Oxford Textbook of Infectious Disease Control

    A Geographical Analysis from Medieval Quarantine to Global Eradication

    by Andrew Cliff, Matthew Smallman-Raynor ...
    Series series Oxford Textbooks In Public Health
    The Oxford Textbook of Infectious Disease Control: A Geographical Analysis from Medieval Quarantine to Global Eradication is a comprehensive analysis of spatial theory and the practical methods used to prevent the geographical spread of communicable diseases in humans. Drawing on current and historical examples spanning seven centuries from across the globe, this indispensable volume demonstrates ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Year the World Went Mad

    A Scientific Memoir

    by Mark Woolhouse ...
    'An essential book.' -Matt RidleyIn January 2020, leading epidemiologist Professor Mark Woolhouse learned of a new virus taking hold in China. He immediately foresaw a hard road ahead for the entire world, and emailed the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland warning that the UK should urgently begin preparations. A few days later he received a polite reply stating only that everything was under ... Read more

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  • Outbreaks and Epidemics

    Battling infection from measles to coronavirus

    by Meera Senthilingam ...
    Series series Hot Science
    'A book that couldn't be more timely, providing an accessible introduction to epidemiology.' KirkusA compelling and disquieting journey through the history and science of epidemics.For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out communities, or even entire populations. Yet for all our advanced scientific knowledge, only one human ... Read more

    $7.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Gone Viral: The Germs That Share Our Lives

    by Frank Bowden ...
    Frank Bowden, a specialist in the field of infectious disease and sexual health, looks at one bug at a time, weaving around them the stories of his patients and their families, the doctors and the difficulties they face and the horrors and successes of hospitals and health care programs. Through Bowden's own work in the field, we encounter Swine Flu, Golden Staph, SARS, Hepatitis, and HIV, and ... Read more

    $26.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Medical Science of House, M.D.

    by Andrew Holtz ...
    How can a teenager adopted at birth nearly die because his real mother didn’t get a measles shot?How can a husband’s faith in his wife’s fidelity determine whether radical treatment will cure her or kill her?How can a missed eye doctor appointment reveal a genetic disease?How can doctors choose the right course for a pregnant woman when one may kill her and the other would abort her fetus?Answers ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Eradication

    Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?

    by Nancy Leys Stepan ...
    The dream of a world completely free of disease may seem utopian. Yet eradication, used in its modern sense to mean the reduction of the number of cases of a disease to zero by deliberate public health interventions, has been pursued repeatedly. Campaigns against yellow fever, malaria and smallpox have been among the largest, most costly programmes ever undertaken in international public health. ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • New Pandemics, Old Politics

    Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives

    by Alex de Waal ...
    New Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with epidemic disease threats, and how this has failed – repeatedly. Europe first declared ‘war’ on cholera in the 19th century. It didn’t defeat the disease but it served purposes of state and empire. In 1918, influenza emerged from a real war and swept the world unchecked by either policy or medicine. ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Emergence of infectious diseases

    Risks and issues for societies

    by Serge Morand, Muriel Figuié ...
    Series series Matière à débattre et décider
    From SARS to avian influenza, Ebola virus and MERS-CoV, infectious diseases have received increasing attention in recent decades from scientists, risk managers, the media and the general public. What explains the constant emergence of infectious diseases? What are the related challenges?In five chapters, experts from different scientific fields analyse the ecological, social, institutional and ... Read more

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  • HIV & AIDS

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alan Whiteside ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20 million had died. Yet the outlook today is a little brighter. Although HIV/ AIDS continues to be a pressing public health issue the epidemic has ... Read more

    $7.99 USD