Lone Atrial Fibrillation: Where Are We Now? (DOI: 10.3810/hp.2011.10.919) 
“John Kelly gives the reader a ferocious, pictorial account of the horrific ravages of [The Black Death].” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times )
“Splendidly written. Kelly has written a popular history based on the best scholarship available, and written it very well indeed.” (Detroit Free Press (**** 4 out of 4 stars) )
“A fascinating account of the plague. A frightening reminder of what could happen today.” (Nelson DeMille, The Birmingham News )
“Stunning. The Great Mortality [is endowed with] the sheer immediacy ancient history yields to only a few.” (Houston Chronicle )
“A compelling and bone-chilling account.” (Tampa Tribune )
“...splendidly written...” (Philadelphia Inquirer )
“This sweeping, viscerally exciting book contributes to a literature of perpetual fascination.” (Booklist (starred review) )
“A ground-level illustration of how the plague ravaged Europe…putting a vivid, human face on an unimaginable nightmare.” (Kirkus Reviews )
“...accessible and engrossing...” (Publishers Weekly )
“A compellingly vivid account.” (The Guardian )
“THE GREAT MORTALITY skillfully draws on eyewitness accounts to construct a journal of the plague years.” (New York Times Book Review )
“THE GREAT MORTALITY is a chilling account of a global siege, public pits, death-carts, silent villages and empty streets.” (Charleston Post & Courier )
“A compelling and eminently readable portrait.” (Library Journal )
“Powerful, rich, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose.” (Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and John James Audubon: The Making of an American )
“Written with a keen eye for the details of the past, it might also be a warning about our future.” (Jack Weatherford, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World )
“Rich and evocative…written in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman, I couldn’t stop reading this work of brilliance and wisdom.” (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone )
This book is successful in concisely presenting the most common methods that graduate students and researchers dealing with spatial data in epidemiology might need to use. It is accessible, reasonably-priced and would be a useful addition to the library of most epidemiologists. It is a welcome addition to the growing literature within the field of spatial epidemiology. (professor Michael Ward, sesquicentennial Chair, The University of Sydney )
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Making care truly personal, redesigning how we deliver it, and creating incentives to progressively improve outcomes and productivity are at the heart of what we need to do. And it will be obvious from this list that only the overall framework can be established by government the rest is up to health system managers, medical professionals and all of us as patients. (SCOPE )
The book reads with ease. The chapters are focused and the subject well-described. I liked the breakdown of the chapters in small parts, well and clearly titled. This helps to maintain the attention on a subject that can be rather dry...A thorough and very helpful overview of the impact that globalisation is having on the struggle countries face in their efforts (or lack of them) to try to manage the effects of drinking alcohol in their population and the impact on the publlc health of their nations...I can see myself referring back to this book again and again in future as I assess my personal role in the health sector and engage colleagues and patients in the debate to determine what will be the best option(s) for the future. (BMA Med Book & Patient Info )
An accessible and comprehensive snapshot of the complex healthcare environment with which policy makers wrestle...A must read for those who want to be part of solutions to get best treatments to the most people and allow us all to benefit from one of the most remarkably exciting fields of human activity...understanding and fixing ourselves. (Andrew Witty, Chief Executive GlaxoSmithKline )
This book is a must for healthcare leaders on both sides of the Atlantic. It grapples with the big question of how we can afford the future. (Ken Jennings, Consultant to leading US health systems )
The next 20 years will see huge strides in how medical science could transform our lives. This book not only describes what will be possible but also whether and how we can afford it. (Professor George Poste, Del E. Webb Chair in Health Innovation, Arizona State University )
A very engaging and enjoyable read, covering a colossal amount of ground without feeling stretched...translating the more upstream science into practical implications for the general public. A great primer on the health future - for both the health-informed and those coming to such thoughts for the first time. (Sam Lister, Health Editor, London Times )
The author is to be congratulated: a well-rounded synopsis of the "present to the future" situation in healthcare...skillfully balancing the transition from basic to applied science, to healthcare and to potential political and economic solutions. (Professor Sir Alasdair Breckenridge, Chairman, UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency )
This book offers a penetrating analysis of the underlying problems, and offers some simple, but far-reaching solutions to bring supply and demand back into balance and avoid the meltdown. It is not a contribution to the current political debate but a primer for the changes to the underlying fabric of healthcare if reforms such as "Obamacare" have any chance of sustainable success. (Gorilla )
The book goes where few go, and that is to compare issues in the U.S. and U.K. and note how some issues such as need for redesign are similar even though the healthcare payment or insurance models are different. (Doody's Reviews )
Barker's book is a brief and excellent primer on current and possible future trends in medical care. His readable prose captures and synthesizes well the current thinking on how to deal with costs associated with medical advancement. (Health Affairs )
Bacillus anthracis causes anthrax in all mammals, including humans. Depending upon the route of entry of B. anthracis spores, infection can result in cutaneous lesions, which are readily treatable with antibiotics, or systemic lethal disease, which is nearly always fatal. The continuing worldwide incidence of anthrax in animal populations, the risk of human infection associated with animal outbreaks, and the threat of use of B. anthracis as a biological weapon warrant continued investigation of this organisms and its virulence mechanims. Furthermore, B. anthracis is an excellent model system for inverstigation of virulence gene expression by bacteria.
Environmental Health: From Global to Local offers students a comprehensive introduction to environmental health. It provides an overview of methods and paradigms used in this exciting field, ranging from ecology to epidemiology, from toxicology to environmental psychology, from genetics to ethics to religion. The authors survey the major issues in contemporary environmental health, ranging from global issues such as climate change and war to regional issues such as air, water, transportation, and energy to local issues such as food safety, pest control, and occupational health. The book includes a strong focus on the real-world practice of environmental public health, offering chapters on such applied topics as risk assessment, risk communication, health services, regulations, and legal remedies. While Environmental Health is grounded in the U.S. experience, it emphasizes global issues and perspectives on such topics as economic development, population, urbanization, and sanitation.
The world's most prominent virus hunter ... Nathan Wolfe's life conforms more to the pattern of a nineteenth-century explorer than to that of a twenty-first-century biologist (New Yorker )
What sets Wolfe apart is his swashbuckling style - he chooses to do most of his work in the field - combined with a flair for communication and negotiation (Nature )
A true-life scientific thriller no reader will forget, Surviving the Extremes takes us to the farthest reaches of the earth as well as into the uncharted territory within the human body, spirit, and brain. A vice president of the legendary Explorers Club, as well as surgeon, explorer, and masterful storyteller, Dr. Kenneth Kamler has spent years discovering what happens to the human body in extreme environmental conditions. Divided into six sections-jungle, high seas, desert, underwater, high altitude, and outer space-this book uses firsthand testimony and documented accounts to investigate the science of what a body goes through and explains why people survive-and why they sometimes don't.
