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Welcome to The ScienceBlogs Book Club, Seed's virtual venue for hosting discussions on stimulating new titles in science, featuring reviews from across the ScienceBlogs network.
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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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
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
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
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
Category: Inside the Outbreaks
Karen Starko writes: When the "financial crisis" started and the news media started throwing around numbers in the trillions and projected fixes in the billions, I realized I just didn't get it. So I got a little yellow post-it, labeled...
Posted by Karen Starko at 9:18 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Inside the Outbreaks
Liz Borkowski writes: Mark Pendergrast wrote yesterday about how politics plays into the work of the EIS, and it's something that I kept noticing as I read Inside the Outbreaks. As he points out, my post last week highlighted the...
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 12:28 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: epidemiology
Mark Pendergrast writes: Thanks to commentators Liz Borkowski, Karen Starko, Steve Schoenbaum, and Mark Rosenberg for their thoughtful posts, though it appears that Mark Rosenberg's post got cut off after his first-paragraph query asking why anyone would go into the...
Posted by Mark Pendergrast at 3:56 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: epidemiology
Steve Schoenbaum writes: "Inside the Outbreaks", Mark Pendergrast's wonderful history of the Centers for Disease Control's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), can be read on many levels. I confess that as a former EIS officer (1967-1969), personally familiar with most of...
Posted by Steve Schoenbaum at 12:01 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Inside the Outbreaks
In addition to author Mark Pendergrast, we have four more outstanding contributors here to discuss Inside the Outbreaks over the next few weeks. Though they all come from public health backgrounds, their experiences in and with the Epidemic Intelligence Service...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 4:23 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Inside the Outbreaks
Karen Starko writes: Even though I am a former EIS officer I am still amazed by the many successes of the EIS that Mark Pendergrast so clearly details in Inside the Outbreaks, The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence...
Posted by Karen Starko at 12:48 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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