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A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other People

By Scott J. Pearson | August 21, 2018 by Scott J. Pearson

bg Randall M. PackardCopyright (c) 2016. I chose this book to read because I wanted a tutorial to the field of global health, and I find that histories are interesting tutorials to subjects. The author, unknown to me, is a Johns Hopkins professor of medical history and is known for writing a work on the history of malaria. The book meets my already-high expectations. Written well, it chronicles early attempts to control disease in “foreign”…

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The Fever: How Malaria has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

By Scott J. Pearson | August 5, 2018 by Scott J. Pearson

by Sonia Shah(c) 2010.Especially during the later Bush years, I heard a lot about mosquito nets to prevent malaria. It was a simple intervention that provided real action. Now, I’m told many (actually, most) of those mosquito nets aren’t used to protect those that are sleeping. They are used as fish nets or on only adults, not on more vulnerable children. This little-known fact and more comprises the main storyline in Fever. Written by an…

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By Scott J. Pearson | August 4, 2018 by Scott J. Pearson

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The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine

By Scott J. Pearson | July 29, 2018 by Scott J. Pearson

by Francis S. Collins(c) 2010 My employer (Vanderbilt University Medical Center) is the world’s leader in implementing the ideas around personalized medicine, so I picked up this audiobook to educate me on what’s going on around me while I drove to and from work. In it, I found interesting stories from patients combined with weighty data from the human genome. Collins maintains a warm bedside manner as well as a writer as he does as…

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By Scott J. Pearson | July 20, 2018 by Scott J. Pearson

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By Scott J. Pearson | July 14, 2018 by Scott J. Pearson

Essential Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Approach by Harvey MotulskyFundamentals of Biostatistics by Bernard RosnerR for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data by Hadley Wickham and Garrett GrolemundThe Art of R Programming: A Tour of Statistical Software Design by Norman MatloffFramingham Heart StudyA History of Public Health by George Rosen and Elizabeth FeePublic Health: A Very Short Introduction by Virginia BerridgeThe History of Global Health: Intervention into the Lives of Other Peoples by Randall M. Packard