Rod Fisher, Bygone Brisbane: Its History, Your Heritage. Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2016, 410 pp. ISBN 9 7819 2523 6828, A$39.99.

The Brisbane Southside HealthConnect Trial: Preliminary Results

The Brisbane Southside HealthConnect Trial (BSHCT) uses diabetes as a basis for a trial to test the value, technical feasibility and sustainability of an electronic health record shared between the public and private sector. This trial focuses on testing the HealthConnect architecture and the openEHR record architecture as an approach to underpin the communication and storage of health record d...

Economic impact of the Brisbane casino

Sporadic human anthrax in urban Brisbane.

On 18 July 1998, a 20 year old forklift driver attended the Emergency Department feeling unwell with a painful lesion over the right anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS). He had first noticed a small painful papule in the area 24 hours beforehand. A 1cm lump was present over his ASIS, surrounded by a 10cm area of reddened, indurated skin. He was febrile and had tender inguinal lymphadenopathy. ...

Virginia Berridge, Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) pp. 160, £7.99, paperback, ISBN: 9780199688463.

as an obligation of the state and a right of citizens, helping fuel a cross-class and -race alliance that pressured the colonial government to step up to the plate. The chapters cover a wide range of topics including the control of infectious diseases, city sanitation reform, the gender/race biases shaping health systems and health education. They also employ different methodological approaches...

Fay Bound Alberti, This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 304, £20.00, hardback and e-book, ISBN: 9780199599035.