epidemiology

Explains recent developments in the AIDS crisis and discusses the disease's historical background, the effects it has on society, the resources that are available to AIDS patients, and other related topics.

Discusses the scope of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its effect on American lives, from unborn children to prisoners.

Explores the role that human behavior has in creating epidemics showing how changes in agriculture, nutrition, sanitation, technology, sexual behavior, and economic conditions prepared for the spread of new diseases in the past.

The author chronicles his thirty years working with hemorrhagic fevers and other viruses that infect man, and offers an overview, from his personal perspective, of what the real threats are from emerging viruses.

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.

"Perennial library." Charts the progress of science toward an understanding of radiation.

Traces the history of the smallpox virus, focusing on how the virus may be used as a terrorist weapon in the future and examining the political, biological, environmental, medical, and legal issues surrounding the question of whether the remaining known stocks of the virus should be destroyed.

A study of new and reappearing diseases that have been causing death and terror around the world in the last few decades of the twentieth century, spotlighting the doctors and scientists who are risking their lives to contain the viruses, and arguing that the deadly microbes are a result of the human impact on earth's ecosystem.