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Gain a full understanding of clinical infectious diseases in just thirty days

A Doody’s Core Title!

No other resource makes clinical infectious diseases more manageable and easy to master than Infectious Diseases: A Clinical Short Course. This one-of-a-kind self-instruction tool is organized by system/region as opposed to pathogens — simulating how common pathogens and disorders would be encountered in rounds or in practice. For this reason, this remarkable resource is unsurpassed for learning how to associate pathogens with their corresponding impact on actual patients.

Features:

• A true, concise “short course” format that can be read and understood in the span of a 30-day infectious disease rotation
• Numerous case examples — appropriate for PBL and integrated curricula — to further highlight clinical application of the content
• Key points summaries and Guiding Questions that drive home core concepts and aid comprehension
• 24 eye-catching color plates that depict major pathogens and reinforce the impact of clinical infection
• NEW! An even more concise and streamlined format designed to help you learn the most in the least amount of time

Infectious Diseases: A Clinical Short Course, Second Edition

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For one hundred years, God had held to his promise, and the colonists had as well. When the first Puritans sailed into Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, weak from the ocean journey, they formed a covenant with each other and with God to establish a city on a hill-a commitment to live uncorrupted lives together or all suffer divine wrath for their collective sin. But now, a century later, the arrival of one doomed ship would put this covenant to its greatest test.

On April 22, 1721, the HMS Seahorse arrived in Boston from the West Indies, carrying goods, cargo, and, unbeknownst to its crew, a deadly virus. Soon, a smallpox epidemic had broken out in Boston, causing hundreds of deaths and panic across the city. The clergy, including the famed Cotton Mather, turned to their standard form of defense against disease: fasting and prayer. But a new theory was also being offered to the public by the scientific world: inoculation. The fierce debate over the right way to combat the tragedy would become a battle between faith and reason, one that would set the city aflame with rage and riot.

The Pox and the Covenant is a story of well known figures such as Cotton Mather, James Franklin, and a young Benjamin Franklin struggling to fight for their cause among death and debate-although not always for the side one would expect. In the end, the incredible results of the epidemic and battle would reshape the colonists’ view of their destiny, setting for America a new course, a new covenant, and the first drumbeats of revolution.

Praise for Pox and the Covenant:

“A welcome shade of gray into the traditional depiction of Puritans as repressive and closed-minded” – Boston Globe

“A fascinating aside to American medical history.” – Publisher’s Weekly

“With present-day controversy over vaccination, everything old is new again. And Williams’ history is timely as well as engaging.” – Booklist

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The Pox and the Covenant: Mather, Franklin, and the Epidemic That Changed America’s Destiny

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This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean – the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake – in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for the vector mosquitoes of yellow fever and malaria, and these diseases wrought systematic havoc among armies and would-be settlers. Because yellow fever confers immunity on survivors of the disease, and because malaria confers resistance, these diseases played partisan roles in the struggles for empire and revolution, attacking some populations more severely than others. In particular, yellow fever and malaria attacked newcomers to the region, which helped keep the Spanish Empire Spanish in the face of predatory rivals in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the late eighteenth and through the nineteenth century, these diseases helped revolutions to succeed by decimating forces sent out from Europe to prevent them.

Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914

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The perfect tool for course review and exam preparation! This brand-new resource is a companion to Dr. Murray’s best-selling Medical Microbiology, 5th Edition. It features more than 550 USMLE-style questions, with answers and rationales that examine bacteriology, virology, mycology, and parasitology. Like its parent text, this review guide focuses on how microbes cause disease in humans and emphasizes facts vital to clinical practice. Readers will find the latest knowledge and advances in the field … page references to the 5th Edition … and full-color illustrations. * Makes an excellent study tool for the microbiology portion of the USMLE Step 1 exam. * Presents questions in the USMLE style to familiarize readers with the exam format. * Includes correct answers for every questions, plus rationales that explain why those answers are correct. * Features page references to the main text for each answer, making more information easy to find. * Integrates 70 color illustrations that demonstrate complex concepts and the appearance of disease. * Considers etiology, epidemiology, host defenses, identification, diagnosis, prevention, and control for a broad range of pathogens.

Review of Medical Microbiology

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The epic story of the collision between one of nature’s smallest organisms and history’s mightiest empire

During the golden age of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian reigned over a territory that stretched from Italy to North Africa. It was the zenith of his achievements and the last of them. In 542 AD, the bubonic plague struck. In weeks, the glorious classical world of Justinian had been plunged into the medieval and modern Europe was born.

At its height, five thousand people died every day in Constantinople. Cities were completely depopulated. It was the first pandemic the world had ever known and it left its indelible mark: when the plague finally ended, more than 25 million people were dead. Weaving together history, microbiology, ecology, jurisprudence, theology, and epidemiology, Justinian’s Flea is a unique and sweeping account of the little known event that changed the course of a continent.

Justinian’s Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire

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Diseases have significantly shaped the course of the world’s history. From the fourteenth-century plague to HIV/AIDS today, diseases have fundamentally altered the shape of society, politics, and culture. In a sweeping, thoughtful account, “Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World” considers the history of twelve important diseases: their impact, their consequences, their costs, and the lessons learned. Examining hemophilia, blight, tuberculosis, cholera, smallpox, bubonic plague, influenza, malaria, yellow fever, syphilis, porphyria, and AIDS, this book not only covers the diseases’ histories but also addresses public health responses and societal upheavals. Historical perspectives on these diseases will be indispensable for a better understanding of how we and our forebears survived the onslaught of ‘plagues’ and how we might avoid their devastating consequences in the future. Crucial to this examination is exploring how past experience can help us to deal effectively with ‘coming plagues’. Whether attempts to control outbreaks were successful or not, lessons can be learned that are crucial for disease containment today. Most significantly, this book explains the lessons learned from attempts to contain past disease outbreaks and how that knowledge can be utilized in the future. Despite the challenges that a major epidemic presents, “Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World” also details various past successes in which diseases were brought under control and social disorder was minimized. The book chronicles the ways disease outbreaks shaped traditions and institutions of Western civilization; explains the effects, causes, and outcomes from past epidemics; describes a dozen diseases to show how disease control either was achieved or failed; makes clear the interrelationship between diseases and history; presents material in a compelling, clear, and jargon-free prose for a wide audience; and, provides a picture of the best practices for dealing with disease outbreaks.

Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World

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Instantly and accurately diagnose and treat the full range of pediatric skin problems

“The focus on quick recognition of pediatric dermatologic conditions and pediatric illnesses makes this atlas an asset in the office. The ease of reference is fantastic. This will replace the dermatology reference I currently use. 3 Stars.”–Doody’s Review Service

Modeled after Fitzpatrick’s Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology, the world’s most widely-used dermatologic reference, this point-of-care atlas provides large, detailed, full-color photographs of skin diseases in children along with the latest management and treatment recommendations. You’ll find everything you need to confidently assess, diagnose, and manage diseases of the skin, hair, and nails of pediatric patients in a busy clinical environment.

Each illness or disorder features a logical easy-to-read presentation that includes:

• Epidemiology
• Pathophysiology
• History
• Physical Examination
• Differential Diagnosis
• Laboratory Evaluation
• Course and Prognosis
• Treatment and Prevention/Management (with approved pediatric dosages)
• One or two full-color photographs

Featuring more than 350 clear, crisp full-color photographs and coverage that spans everything from disorders of blood and lymph vessels to cutaneous bacterial, viral, and fungal infections, Color Atlas & Synopsis of Pediatric Dermatology is the fastest and most reliable way to confirm your next pediatric diagnosis.

Color Atlas and Synopsis of Pediatric Dermatology: Second Edition

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The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birth

A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply variola affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North America.

By 1776, when military action and political ferment increased the movement of people and microbes, the epidemic worsened. Fenn’s remarkable research shows us how smallpox devastated the American troops at Québec and kept them at bay during the British occupation of Boston. Soon the disease affected the war in Virginia, where it ravaged slaves who had escaped to join the British forces. During the terrible winter at Valley Forge, General Washington had to decide if and when to attempt the risky inoculation of his troops. In 1779, while Creeks and Cherokees were dying in Georgia, smallpox broke out in Mexico City, whence it followed travelers going north, striking Santa Fe and outlying pueblos in January 1781. Simultaneously it moved up the Pacific coast and east across the plains as far as Hudson’s Bay.

The destructive, desolating power of smallpox made for a cascade of public-helath crises and heartbreaking human drama. Fenn’s innovative work shows how this mega-tragedy was met and what its consequences were for America.

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH not only covers the environmental sciences but also the human population. This text emphasizes the environmental practices that support human life as well as the need to control factors that are harmful to human life. Chapters focus on the requisites of life, water, air, food, space, and shelter. Chapters also address proper management of wastewater treatment, solid waste management, insect and rodent control and agents that cause diseases. The top Environmentalist from around the world contribute a chapter in their area of expertise to form the most comprehensive text available.

Environmental Health

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An estimated one million Americans are infected each year with genital herpes. Though most are initially unaware of the infection, those diagnosed may face difficult questions about how they acquired herpes and how to manage it. This book provides a balanced perspective on medical and emotional issues including: – Recurrences – Treatment Options – Transmission – Pregnancy – Telling Your Partner

Managing Herpes: Living and Loving With HSV