epidemiology

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.

Discusses disease outbreaks, epidemiology, microbes, historic plagues, modern killers such as Ebola and Legionnaires' disease, pandemics such as AIDS, and other problems, such as bioterrorism, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, SARS, and more.

Presents an introduction to killer diseases, discussing the history of human diseases, their origins, causes, and treatments, and looking at the risk they pose to future health.

A collection of medical cases concerned with strange illnesses and rare diseases gathered from the 1940's through 1984.

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.

An account of the challenges that infectious diseases pose for mankind, and the conditions that favor and even promote the spread of these diseases.

Presents a series of essays that examines the global effect of infectious diseases and the political and medical response to such things as AIDS, SARS, smallpox, and bioterrorism.

Contains twelve essays and documents that provide information about various aspects of epidemics, examining the science of epidemics, looking at five devastating plagues, and discussing prevention and control.