ScienceBlogs Book Club
lborkowski | June 29, 2010The ScienceBlogs Book Club continues the discussion on Mark Pendergrast's Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service - come on over and join in! In my post today, I look at the difference between solving disease puzzles (figuring out what the agent is, how it's being transmitted, etc) and solving problems (the conditions that let these disease outbreaks occur). Here's an excerpt:
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…