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In June, 2010:
Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, by Mark Pendergrast
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In October, 2008:
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, by Paul Offit
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In June, 2008:
Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life, by Carl Zimmer
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July 21, 2010
Category: Inside the Outbreaks
Mark Pendergrast writes: It's time to wrap up this ScienceBlog Book Club on my book, Inside the Outbreaks. I want to thank Liz Borkowski, Steve Schoenbaum, and Karen Starko for their excellent, insightful commentaries, and thanks too to those who...
Posted by Mark Pendergrast at 5:17 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 9, 2010
In this post I want to address disease control opportunities for EIS officers, many of which are detailed in "Inside the Outbreaks: One of the first things we learned about on joining the EIS was John Snow's determination that an...
Posted by Steve Schoenbaum at 11:54 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 8, 2010
Category: Bioterrorism
Mark Pendergrast writes: Instead of responding to last week's commentaries on this book club blog about my book, Inside the Outbreaks, I want to throw out a controversial idea that runs counter to what many public health commentators apparently believe....
Posted by Mark Pendergrast at 12:43 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 7, 2010
Category: Inside the Outbreaks
Karen Starko writes: Several basic questions related to Reye's syndrome (RS) have come to me from readers of Mark's book, Inside the Outbreaks. These show the importance of continued education on health issues. (For example, some physicians thought that fever...
Posted by Karen Starko at 8:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 6, 2010
Category: Inside the Outbreaks
Liz Borkowski writes: I wrote last week about how federal agencies can solve the problems that create conditions for disease outbreaks - or fail to solve them, as is too often the case. This week, I wanted to focus on...
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 8:28 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 2, 2010
Steve Schoenbaum writes: In his blog this week, Mark Pendergrast challenges someone/anyone to take on explaining the differences between case-control studies vs. cohort studies. As an EIS officer, back in late May/early June 1968, I did a case-control study as...
Posted by Steve Schoenbaum at 11:11 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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