Molecular Biology of the Cardiovascular System

This book is easy to read and understand both for the individual with a medical background and the informed layman; I would recommend it to both. It is meant to be read cover to cover, and it would be difficult to skim or browse in selected chapters as the story and its cast of characters unfold chronologically. The work is not meant to be a source book for a current understanding of RMSF, as this knowledge can be more efficiently covered in a textbook. Rather, the book provides an entertaining look at the development of understanding of RMSF, with its backdrop the growth of infectious disease research in the twentieth century as well as the development of the U.S. Public Health Service, which was active in every phase of this undertaking.