Tag: Wallace Peters

  • 2013: Best Medical Books of All Time

    2013: Best Medical Books of All Time

    Overview Here is my as-of-year-2013 list of the best medical books of all time, books which I consider to be great to spectacular. Anonymous posts are allowed. Please let me know if you have any additional suggestions for inclusion. I would especially like to add to the list books on electrocardiography, sports medicine, oncology and…

  • Book Review: Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (2007)

    Book Review: Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (2007)

    Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (2007) by Wallace Peters and Geoffrey Pasvol offers a bleak and sometimes depressing window into the state of health, or lack thereof, of underdeveloped countries, particularly those in Africa. The names of the diseases and symptoms are fearsome and sometimes curious: dengue, blackwater fever, rabies, leprosy, bubonic plague and more. The…