Seven Things You Should Know about Divine Healing
Author: Kenneth E Hagin
Rev. Hagin began his study of divine healing as a teenageer after five eminent physicians gave him to die. In this book he shares the results of his lifelong study of the Scriptures as well as actual case histories.
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Travel Medicine: Tales Behind the Science
Author: Annelies Wilder Smith
Travel to exotic places is fascinating, and equally so are infections and other dangers of exotic travel. Moreover, one need not be traveling to suffer these maladies; sometimes they travel to you. The enormous global mobility demands a public health response. The result is the concept of 'travel medicine' as a separate discipline. This book describes the evolution of travel medicine, travel vaccines, malaria prophylaxis and infections of adventure and leisure.
This book is unique and different to the standard textbooks on travel medicine. It provides rare insights into many of the behind-the-scenes in travel medicine, personal stories of failures and successes of travel medicine practitioners, the 'real life' tales that unravel the science behind travel medicine. We believe that the best lessons are learned from personal stories.
Not every travel is fun. Some travel is for a cause, be it religious or humanitarian, or be it to escape certain political systems. We have added stories on the tragedies of so-called 'undocumented refugees', and stories written by colleagues who were involved in humanitarian care. Pilgrimages attract large number of 'travelers' and yet we know so little about these pilgrimages. Chapters on the Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian pilgrimages aim to correct this.
Diseases also travel. The spread of global diseases and pandemics is fascinating. This book provides an overview of the pandemics, in particular that of cholera, yellow fever, severe acute respiratory syndrome and influenza. Globalization, migration and health lead to a history of disease and disparity in the global village - our world. And what about the revisedInternational Health Regulations- what do we need to know about them in the context of travel medicine?
In the next millennium, our world will have inherited further global movement. It may even include travel to aerospace. The 'Epilogue' awakes some of our old dreams - the last frontier, space travel...
Annelies Wilder-Smith has lived in China, Papua New Guinea, Nepal, New Zealand, and Switzerland. She is currently based in Singapore from where she continues to travel extensively throughout Asia. She is the Head of the Travellers Health ' Vaccination Centre in Singapore, one of the largest travel clinics in Asia. She was in a unique position to do research on W135 meningococcal disease in Hajj pilgrims during the outbreak. She 'lived through' the SARS epidemic in Singapore.
Eli Schwartz is the Director of the Center for Geographic Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Eli is a 'real' tropical medicine specialist. He obtained all his experience in the field, including Nepal, Tibet, and numerous adventure travels to Africa where he prefers to do his studies on the sides of the Omo River.
Marc Shaw is a passionate traveler, doctor, actor and observer of fine humor. His favorite pastime is to be an expedition doctor. This has taken him to exotic places such as Namibia, Mongolia, Pitcairn Islands, and to the Amazon. He is the Director of WORLDWIDE Travellers' Health Centres in New Zealand.
* Unique and rare insights into the behind-the-scenes world of travel medicine including personal stories of both successes and failures from practitioners
* Studies the development of Travel Medicine as a new discipline in response to the overwhelming interest in travel and its ramifications for health
* Provides a history of the International Society of Travel Medicine
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Reviewer:Winnie Ooi, MD, MPH, DMD(Harvard Medical School)
Description:This is a collection of stories, histories, anecdotes, personal experiences, and some dreams, all of which contribute to the understanding of travel medicine. Each chapter describes one of the different components of travel medicine such as vaccines, medical and other risks of traveling, migration, and refugee medicine and in this way demonstrates how the specialty has evolved into what the practice is today.
Purpose:The editors wanted to compile a collection of stories and personal experiences of prominent practitioners in the field in order to contribute to readers' understanding of travel medicine.
Audience:Both lay readers and medical practitioners could easily understand this book. Most of the authors are well known authorities.
Features:The book is pretty comprehensive insofar as it covers the history, education, and practice of travel medicine as well as the spread of diseases via social changes such as globalization. The book ends with the last frontier - aerospace.
Assessment:Personal stories engagingly written by prominent practitioners in the field make the field come alive for readers. There is no comparable book.
Table of Contents:
Introduction;
The Development of Travel Medicine as a new discipline; History of the International Society of Travel Medicine;
Education in Travel Medicine
Education in Travel Medicine; The Gorgas course: Learning travel medicine while travelling; The Ten Commandments for Healthy Tropical Travel
History of the Evolution of Travel Vaccines
Routine National Vaccines; Recommended Travel Vaccines: From "Travel Vaccines" to universal vaccination: the hepatitis A story; Required Travellers Vaccinations: Yellow Fever - The Disease and the Vaccine; Remote Travel Vaccines: The undulating fortunes of typhoid vaccines; 'Rarer' Travellers Vaccines: Rabies vaccines; Malarial drugs down through the ages: from Cinchona to Qinghaosu
Infections of Adventure and Leisure (A. Wilder-Smith);
Personal Tales Tragedy on a cruise ship; Confessions of A 'Reality TV' Doc; Tales from the mountains; Tomb Raider's Crew Doctor; The Woman Atop the Crocodile: Newton's Law in Africa; A Travel medicine practitioner during SARS outbreak in Singapore;
Tales behind the research in travel medicine
The Borneo Eco-Challenge: GeoSentinel & Rapid Global Sharing of Disease Outbreak Information; Understanding Malaria Prophylaxis: Lessons learnt on the Omo River, Ethiopia; Travellers' diarrhoea: Tales from Mexico; The story of the Himalaya clinic, Nepal; Studying cyclospora in Nepal; Meningococcal disease and the Hajj pilgrimage; Too high too fast: experiences at high altitude; The Pleasures and Perils of Traveling with Young Children (K. Neumann); Mongolian Expedition; Evacuation oftravelers: Personal Anecdotes, Pearls and Conclusions;
Travelling for a Cause
Globalization, Migration and Health: Disease and Disparity in the Global Village; Stories of undocumented migrants to the US; Between crossing boundaries and respecting norms: The story of Women Labor-Migrants in Israel; Humanitarian Care in Haiti and Rwanda; Muslim Pilgrimage; The pilgrimages of Christianity; Hindu pilgrims; Buddhist Pilgrims;
When diseases travel
Cholera — a travel history of the first modern pandemic; The role of armies in spreading epidemics: vector and victim; The Spread of Disease in the 20th Century & Lessons for the 21st Century; International health regulations made easy for travel medicine practitioners;
The Future- Aerospace visit.
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