Readers looking for my more popular blog, about tobacco harm reduction and related subjects, will find it at. The one sentence version of what I found: Read Patient Zero solving the mysteries of deadly epidemics, by Marilee Peters (2014). (The full version of this review plus more detail appears below (those reading a non-clickable version of this can use: bit.ly/PopEpiReviews). While that history is not sufficient for understanding modern epidemiology, it is useful start.
I decided to journey through the HSL stacks to identify books about the science and historical development of epidemiology that would be useful to lay readers and that would be a good supplemental reading in an undergraduate class. There are just not many books, and most of them are bad. But readers with a taste for science books probably understand particle physics and population genetics better than they understand epidemiology. If you intend to read this section, you can probably just skip the first section as redundant.īook Review: The Science and History of Studying EpidemicsĮpidemiology (the study of health outcomes and their causes) is the science that you most often encounter in the news and that has the most immediate impact on people’s lives.
I intend to add updates at the end as I review more of the genre. A more detailed version that explains more about my motives and offers more details, book-by-book.An essay version of the reviews, written for my library newsletter.Should we (librarians/readers) put this on the top of our “to read” piles? Yes! This one is fun.Note: This post consists of the following two sections: Where would you shelve it ? Nonfiction 614.49 Who should buy this book? Middle Schools and high schools To whom would you recommend this book? Any student interested in disease, mysteries or “yucky stuff” should like this one. Highly readable!Īnything you didn’t like about it? No. Includes index, glossary and many interesting sidebars. From the plague to ebola and AIDS, this book uses narrative to tell the story of each epidemic, those who suffered (including Patient Zero for each if possible) and the individual who solved the case. What did you like about the book? Fascinating look at epidemiology through the lens of mysteries to be solved. Patient Zero: Solving the Mysteries of Deadly Epidemics by Marilee Peters from Annick Press, (978-1554516711), 2014
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