Epidemiology

April 1, 2015

Gr 8 Up-This well-researched series presents eight scientific fields of study and explores their origins, current impact, and future implications. Beginning with an attention-grabbing introduction, the narrative is engaging, immersing readers in the histories of these subjects. What follows is a chronicle of each subject that includes key figures and their impact on science and culture as well as technologies that have played a role in the discipline's evolution. Complex scientific principles are made accessible through meaningful, straightforward language, and in-text citations and source notes provide greater credibility and authority. Historical photographs are numerous and put a face on the men and women who have shaped science. VERDICT A first-purchase consideration.

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April 1, 2015
Grades 6-9 Few topics could be more timely and more concerning than the spread of infectious disease. Hand uses the Ebola virus as a case study in how an outbreak becomes an epidemic, how an epidemic becomes a public-health crisis, and how epidemiologists race to stop virulent infections in their tracks. The interdisciplinary nature of public health is explored in-depth, touching on the sociology, economics, and geography of outbreaks. Working conditions, job responsibilities, and ethical concerns of epidemiologists are explained and depicted in full-color photographs of scientists on the job. A history of epidemiology fills an entire chapter, from Hippocrates through major plagues of the Middle Ages to the earliest study of microbes, in the sixteenth century. Part career exploration, part historical chronicle, and part scientific explanation, this book in the History of Science series captures the complexities facing epidemiologists today.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)