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Infectious Diseases

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  • Mountains Beyond Mountainsby Tracy Kidder

    Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 11.99

    Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine , House , Among Schoolchildren , and Home Town . He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and... more...

  • The Speckled Monsterby Jennifer Lee Carrell

    Penguin Group Inc. 2004; US$ 14.99

    The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox.  After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and Eastern women in frantic bids to protect their children.  From their heroic struggles stems the modern science of immunology as well as the vaccinations that remain our only hope should the disease ever be unleashed again. Jennifer Lee Carrell transports readers back to the early eighteenth century to tell the tales of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, two iconoclastic figures who helped save London and Boston from the deadliest disease mankind has known.... more...

  • Cure Unknownby Pamela Weintraub

    St. Martin's Press 2009; US$ 9.99

    A groundbreaking and controversial narrative investigation into the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience of Lyme disease told by a science journalist whose entire family contracted the disease. Pamela Weintraub paints a nuanced picture of the intense controversy and crippling uncertainty surrounding Lyme disease and sheds light on one of the angriest medical disputes raging today.  She also reveals her personal odyssey through the land of Lyme after she, her husband and their two sons became seriously ill with the disease beginning in the 1990s.  From the microbe causing the infection and the definition of the disease, to the length and type of treatment and the kind of practitioner needed, Lyme... more...

  • Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animalsby Matt J. Keeling; Pejman Rohani

    Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 70.00

    For epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing importance. This book provides a timely and comprehensive introduction to the modeling of infectious diseases in humans and animals, focusing on recent developments as well as more traditional approaches. Matt Keeling and Pejman Rohani move from modeling with simple differential equations to more recent, complex models, where spatial structure, seasonal "forcing," or stochasticity influence the dynamics, and where computer simulation needs to be used to generate theory. In each of the eight chapters, they deal with a specific modeling approach or set of techniques designed to capture a particular... more...

  • Applications And Engineering Of Monoclonal Antibodiesby David J. King

    CRC Press 1998; US$ 74.95

    Focusing on monoclonal antibodies, this work covers their role in marking and identifying particular molecules, their application in diagnosing disease, how they can be used for the delivery of drugs to specific target cells etc. more...

  • Management of Chronic Viral Hepatitisby Graham Foster; Robert D Goldin

    Taylor & Francis, A Martin Dunitz Book 2001; US$ 44.95

    The authors have written a succinct, highly illustrated text for all those interested in the management of viral hepatitis, examining the use of each new interferon, the only effective treatment in the chronically infected patients. more...

  • Hepatitis B and Cby Thierry Poynard

    Taylor & Francis, A Martin Dunitz Book 2001; US$ 60.00

    Covers Hepatitis B and C, though the focus is on Hepatitis C. more...

  • Abdominal Stomas and their Skin Disordersby Calum C Lyon; Amanda J Smith

    Informa Healthcare 2001; US$ 94.95

    This handbook bridges the gap between the colorectal surgeon, the stoma nurse and the dermatologist more...

  • The War Against Epidemics in Colonial Guatemala 1519-1821by Lawrence H. Feldman

    Boson Books 1999; US$ 10.95

    Using colonial tax and census records, scholars think the indigenous population dropped at least 90% in the first 160 years after the European conquest. Mismanagement, drought, famine, flood, earthquakes, and even volcanic eruptions all had their victims but the chief cause of death were none of these. In colonial Guatemala the pests, the epidemics, were the greatest killers. There are many books on medicine in colonial Guatemala. What makes this work different is that it is neither a broad history of the colonial era nor restricted to a single ethnic group or profession. Instead, it seeks to answer the question: What happened when an epidemic struck? Boson Books also offers Motagua Colonial by Lawrence Feldman. For an author bio, photo, and... more...

  • Infection and Immunityby D. H. Davies; M. A. Halablab; T. W. K. Young; F. E. G. Cox; J. Clarke

    CRC Press 1998; US$ 41.95

    Taking a disease-based approach, this text explores the interactions between pathogens and the human immune system and explains how mircoorganisms can evade the immune system and thus cause disease. Concise yet comprehensive. more...