Book Review: John Kirk, Healthcare without Borders: Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism

John Snow's legacy: epidemiology without borders.

This Review provides abstracts from a meeting held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, on April 11-12, 2013, to celebrate the legacy of John Snow. They describe conventional and unconventional applications of epidemiological methods to problems ranging from diarrhoeal disease, mental health, cancer, and accident care, to education, poverty, financial networks, crime, and viol...

Book Review: Understanding Evolution

Understanding evolutionary change has become more complicated in recent years. After a number of theoretical expansions from Darwin's theory of evolution to neo-Darwinism and the Modern Synthesis, evolutionary theory is currently influenced by a fundamental debate about how to expand its theoretical framework even more (Pigliucci and Müller, 2010). This debate is driven by research results on t...

book review: understanding social policy

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Learning without Borders: A Review of the Implementation of Medical Error Reporting in Médecins Sans Frontières

OBJECTIVE To analyse the results from the first 3 years of implementation of a medical error reporting system in Médecins Sans Frontières-Operational Centre Amsterdam (MSF) programs. METHODOLOGY A medical error reporting policy was developed with input from frontline workers and introduced to the organisation in June 2010. The definition of medical error used was "the failure of a planned act...

Book Review: Understanding Human Anatomy and Pathology