Dr. Jeremy Brown trained at University College School of Medicine in London and completed his residency in emergency medicine in Boston. He was the Research Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University before moving to the National Institutes of Health, where he now directs its Office of Emergency Care Research. His opinion pieces have been published in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and he has written for Discover magazine.
On the 100th anniversary of the devastating pandemic of 1918, Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu virus, from the origins of the Great Flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and how close are we to finding a cure?
While influenza is now often thought of as a common and mild disease, it still kills over 30,000 people in the US each year. Dr. Jeremy Brown, currently Director of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health, expounds on the flu's deadly past to solve the mysteries that could protect us from the next outbreak. In Influenza, he talks with leading epidemiologists, policy makers, and the researcher who first sequenced the genetic building blocks of the original 1918 virus to offer both a comprehensive history and a roadmap for understanding what’s to come.
Dr. Brown digs into the discovery and resurrection of the flu virus in the frozen victims of the 1918 epidemic, as well as the bizarre remedies that once treated the disease, such as whiskey and blood-letting. Influenza also breaks down the current dialogue surrounding the disease, explaining the controversy over vaccinations, antiviral drugs like Tamiflu, and the federal government’s role in preparing for pandemic outbreaks. Though 100 years of advancement in medical research and technology have passed since the 1918 disaster, Dr. Brown warns that many of the most vital questions about the flu virus continue to confound even the leading experts.
Influenza is an enlightening and unnerving look at a shapeshifting deadly virus that has been around long before people—and warns us that it may be many more years before we are able to conquer it for good.
發表於2024-12-25
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誠實地說,我甚至有點懷疑是機翻,或是在機翻基礎上做瞭不太完善的修改。 比如同一個人名,僅僅相隔幾頁就有“帕斯特”“巴斯德”兩個譯名;同一種動物,在同一個對頁裏就有“豚鼠”“幾內亞豬”兩個名字。 此外還有一些讀起來非常讓人費解的句子,比如62頁:“他們特彆容易感染...
圖書標籤: 科普 醫學 曆史 flu 科學史 history 流感 醫學史
好像是去年Nature還是Science推薦的 今天在圖書館看到 放在現在這個時候還真是應景啊……
評分好像是說2022左右新冠會齣現二次全球爆發,以及2024年之前去人流密集的地方都還是有危險…唉
評分A splendid exhibition of knowledge and critical thinking...
評分A splendid exhibition of knowledge and critical thinking...
評分A splendid exhibition of knowledge and critical thinking...
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