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Books : Health, Family & Lifestyle : Medical & Healthcare Practitioners : Internal Medicine : Diseases & Disorders : Infectious & Contagious Diseases

• The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera and the Mystery of the Broad Street Pump

  Sandra Hempel

  
  
   

• Mims' Medical Microbiology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access (Trauma Manual)

  Richard Goering MD PhD, Hazel Dockrell MD, Mark Zuckerman MB BS(London) MSc BSc MRCP MRCPath, Derek Wakelin BSc PhD DSc FRCPath, Ivan Roitt MA DSc(Oxon) Hon FRCP(Lond) FRCPath FRS, Cedric Mims BSc MD FRCPath, Peter L. Chiodini Professor

  
  
   

• Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine (Oxford Handbooks Series)

  Michael Eddleston, Robert Davidson, Andrew Brent, Robert Wilkinson

  
  
   

• Aids to the Examination of the Peripheral Nervous System (Neurology)

  Brain

  
  
   

• Oxford Handbook of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology (Oxford Handbooks Series)

  Estee Torok, Ed Moran, Fiona Cooke

  
  
   

• Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (Oxford Handbooks Series)

  Murray Longmore, Ian Wilkinson, Tom Turmezei, Chee Kay Cheung

  
  
   

• Student Nurse Infection Control Survival Guide

  Mrs Barbara Smith

  
  
   

• Oxford Handbook of Genitourinary Medicine, HIV and AIDS (Oxford Handbooks Series)

  
  
   

• Medical Microbiology and Infection at a Glance (Blackwell's at a Glance)

  Stephen H. Gillespie, Kathleen B. Bamford

  
  
   

• Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases: Expert Consult Premium Edition - Enhanced Online Features and Print

  Gerald L. Mandell MD MACP

  
  
   

• Infection Control in Clinical Practice

  Jennie Wilson BSc(Hons) RGN

  
  
   

• The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses

  Dorothy Crawford

  
  Though the Berlin Wall has fallen, we find ourselves still struggling with an even older enemy in the eternal Common Cold War. Virologist Dorothy H Crawford has studied the link between Epstein-Barr virus and human cancer for years and casts a wary eye through the electron microscope to check up on them and report on our strange and occasionally deadly symbiosis in The Invisible Enemy.

  This slim book, scholarly but accessible, examines these barely-living (or unliving, depending on whom you ask) gene packages with a strong emphasis on their disease-causing antics and the intellectual heroics of the various campaigns of eradication and control humans have waged for centuries. Though biological relativists might cringe occasionally at Crawford's dogged humanocentrism, few of them would really pine for the days of smallpox or embrace the raging HIV pandemic if pressed. Crawford looks at the wake of devastation left by these two viruses as well as her own favorite subject, which is strongly implicated in the formation of many cancers. Going a bit farther afield, she explains the weird behavior of the non-genetic reproduction of prions that cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy; though these scary proteins aren't viruses by any definition, their behavior is similar enough to warrant inclusion. The Invisible Enemy, calmer than its title would suggest, provokes a sense of optimism in the reader; though the war might last forever, we can hope for fewer and fewer casualties as the years go by.--Rob Lightner

  
   

• Tropical Medicine (Lecture Notes)

  
  
   

• HIV/AIDS: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

  Alan Whiteside

  
  
   

• Infection and Immunity

  John Playfair, Gregory Bancroft

  
  
   

• The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS

  Helen Epstein

  
  
   

• And the Band Played on: People, Politics and the AIDS Epidemic

  Randy Shilts

  
  
   

• What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders

  Stephen Edelson, Deborah Mitchell

  
  
   

• Immunity: The Immune Response in Infectious and Inflammatory Disease (Primers in Biology)

  Anthony DeFranco, Richard Locksley, Miranda Robertson

  
  
   

• Human Virology

  Leslie Collier, John Oxford