Autumn Books: Pestilence stricken multitudes

Begone Pestilence!

THE ideal of Medicine is the prevention of disease, and in our daily lives each of us is striving towards the goal of healtlh. Everyone is directly involved in the eternal struggle against disease, and happily nowadays people appreciate that the forestalling of it is more signiificanit than its cure or care. Much has been done to rid the world of illness, and the course towards positive health ...

Ancient Myths and Avian Pestilence

hese birds are the size of a crane and are like the ibis, but their beaks are more powerful, and not crooked like the ibis, " wrote ancient Hellene traveler and writer, Pausanias (1). He was referring to large flocks of metal-clawed ornithes, which according to legend, roosted in the dense marshes around Lake Stymphalis in Arcadia, ravaging crops and the livelihood of neighboring villages (2). ...

Containing multitudes: medical education 2013.

An experiment: without any deliberation, write down what immediately comes to mind when you hear the phrase " medical education. " Ask a number of colleagues to do the same and compare answers. The results are likely to be very disparate, depending perhaps on career stage, or even more on the types of teaching activities in which each person is engaged. This is one of the challenges of medical ...

Books, books, books.

IAPR Fellow, shares a personal sketch of his career in statistical pattern recognition. At the end, he poses questions to entice further research. Chart of some upcoming IAPR and non-IAPR workshops, conferences, and summer schools of interest to the I APR community. The views expressed in this newsletter represent the personal views of the authors and not necessarily those of their host institu...

Ancient speculation on the seeds of pestilence.