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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: 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: Medicine
Mark Pendergrast writes: To kick off this book club discussion of Inside the Outbreaks, I thought I would explain briefly how I came to write the book and then suggest some possible topics for discussion. The origin of the book...
Posted by Mark Pendergrast at 1:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
