Timebomb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Timebomb write by Lee B. Reichman. This book was released on 2002. Timebomb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Worse yet this ancient disease is undergoing a metamorphosis, adapting to our misused medications, growing stronger, becoming unbeatable - becoming multi-drug-resistant."--BOOK JACKET.
Timebomb:The Global Epidemic of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
Timebomb:The Global Epidemic of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Timebomb:The Global Epidemic of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis write by Lee Reichman. This book was released on 2001-11-05. Timebomb:The Global Epidemic of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is an excellent book. It should be read by all who are interested in any aspect of Tuberculosis, including the growing problem of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis." Journal of American Medical Association "The book serves an important function, relaying statistics and TB hot spots, proposing funding and international standardized treatments. Government officials, researchers and nonprofit health organizations will likely cast this as the authoritative book on the subject." Publishers Weekly "Like other recent works on the threat of infectious diseases such as Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague, Timebomb has the power of fiction and it is sometimes easy to forget that it is not. Unlike the Garrett book, which is more a collection of short dramatic stories collectively telling a big picture about our coexistence and evolution with microbes, Reichman selects one story and presents it in novel form with better material that most science fiction. The book is organized in a clear and riveting manner. Within the narrative style, the book is rich with up-to-the-minute details and references that add to its depth. An incredible account of politics and disease dynamics occurring at all levels, Timebomb helps us realize that controlling or eradicating TB is not just about science and facts; likely if it were, TB would have long been relegated to the history books." Nature Medicine Magazine Tuberculosis, supposedly defeated by antibiotics half a century ago, has returned in a highly contagious and fatal new form that cannot be treated with conventional drugs. Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), could cause some 10 million deaths over the next decade and is thriving in the overcrowded prisons of the former Soviet Union. As Timebomb explains in unnerving detail, the virtual collapse of the world's borders means that refugees, tourists, immigrants, business travelers, and others can spread the TB bacillus very efficiently. London, for example, has experienced a 100% increase in reported cases in the past 10 years. Written by the world's preeminent TB expert and an award-winning medical and health writer, Timebomb details the evolution and the current state of the MDR-TB epidemic, interweaving the science of MDR-TB with personal stories of people whose lives have been threatened by the deadly bacteria.
Invincible Microbe
Invincible Microbe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Invincible Microbe write by Jim Murphy. This book was released on 2012. Invincible Microbe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the story of a killer that has been striking people down for thousands of years: tuberculosis. After centuries of ineffective treatments, the microorganism that causes TB was identified, and the cure was thought to be within reach--but drug-resistant varieties continue to plague and panic the human race. The "biography" of this deadly germ, an account of the diagnosis, treatment, and "cure" of the disease over time, and the social history of an illness that could strike anywhere but was most prevalent among the poor are woven together in an engrossing, carefully researched narrative. Bibliography, source notes, index.
Global Health In Practice: Investing Amidst Pandemics, Denial Of Evidence, And Neo-dependency
Global Health In Practice: Investing Amidst Pandemics, Denial Of Evidence, And Neo-dependency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Health In Practice: Investing Amidst Pandemics, Denial Of Evidence, And Neo-dependency write by Olusoji Adeyi. This book was released on 2021-12-28. Global Health In Practice: Investing Amidst Pandemics, Denial Of Evidence, And Neo-dependency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the world's vulnerabilities to health and economic ruin from disease outbreaks. But the pandemic merely reveals fundamental weaknesses and contradictions in global health. What are the roots of discontents in global health? How do geo-politics, power dynamics, knowledge gaps, racism, and corruption affect global health? Is foreign aid for health due for a radical overhaul?This book is an incisive guide to the practice of global health in real life. Global health policy is at a crossroads. It is on trial at the interface between the Global North and the Global South. There has been remarkable progress in health outcomes over the past century. Yet, countries face a complex landscape of lofty ambitions in the form of political commitments to Universal Health Coverage, Human Capital, and Global Health Security. These ambitions are tempered by multiple constraints. Investors in global health must navigate a minefield of uneven progress, great expectations, and denials of scientific evidence by entrenched interests. That terrain is further complicated by the hegemonic suppression of innovation that threatens the status quo and by self-perpetuating cycles of dependency of the Global South on the Global North.This book is an unflinching scrutiny of concepts and cases by a veteran of global health policy and practice. It holds a mirror to the world and lays out pathways to a better future. The book is a must-have GPS for policy makers and practitioners as they navigate the maze of global health.
What is Soviet Now?
What is Soviet Now? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What is Soviet Now? write by Thomas Lahusen. This book was released on 2008. What is Soviet Now? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Economists and political scientists wrestle with the challenges faced by Russian officials and public alike in adapting to a market economy and democracy, including the fragility of property rights and elections still rooted in old institutional structures. This book examines the reforms of health and welfare, and the hierarchy of privilege and access, and consider how Putin's statist approach to mythmaking compares to that of previous Soviet and post-Soviet regimes. Historians and anthropologists explore the issue of nostalgia, gender, punishment, belief, and how history itself is being created and perceived today. The book concludes with a journey through the ruined landscape of real socialism.
