epidemiology

In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever. Includes a historical note by the author.

"Explores careers in and science of epidemiology through accounts of real-life scientists"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the occurrence of disease on a global scale and explores the environmental, social, political, and economic implications of combating disease.

A collection of essays that explore how disease patterns have changed through human history and describe key epidemics and discoveries and the people involved in them.

Explores the history of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, which was organized in 1951 to battle various diseases, including polio, cholera, and smallpox, and continues to eliminate diseases that threaten the population in the twenty-first century.

Takes a look at the sometimes frightening history of diseases and their treatments, chronicling advances from ancient to modern times.

Follows an epidemiologist through a day at work at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.

A personal account of the work of Joseph McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch, a husband and wife team who have been in the forefront of research into the causes and treatment of deadly viruses, traveling the world in the course of their investigations of diseases like Ebola, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, and HIV.