Jihad and American Medicine: Thinking Like a Terrorist to Anticipate Attacks via Our Health System

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Edition: 1
Release: 2007-11-30
Publisher: Praeger
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0275996379
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Jihad and American Medicine pdf
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State-of-the-art counter-terrorism techniques, insights into modern medical practice, medical errors, and disaster prevention all intersect in this groundbreaking book by Adam Dorin, M.D., an anesthesiologist and medical director across 15 years. Dr. Dorin shows us why our healthcare system may be the next Ground Zero for terrorism and how many opportunities there are for terrorists to infiltrate the system. He offers a history of medical and healthcare-related serial killers, showing how they got inside the system to murder relatively easily, takes a detailed look at the profound problems that already exist in counterfeit and tainted medicinal products, and describes biological, chemical, and nuclear terrorism that could be used against our healthcare system. Most critically, Dr. Dorin presents a detailed blueprint for safeguarding our system and preventing medical terrorism from ever taking place.In tackling largely hidden but potentially deadly issues such as the failures of securi Download Jihad and American Medicine for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Who's In Charge?: Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises (Praeger Security International) Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2009-09-03
Publisher: Praeger
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0275994856
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An imminent threat to the public health, such as the swine flu outbreak, is no time for a muddled chain of command and contradictory decision making. Who's In Charge? Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health CriseS≪/i> explores the crucial relationships between political leaders, public health officials, journalists, and others to see why leadership confusion develops.Who's In Charge? begins by looking at the overarching issues of leadership, public health administration, and the threats of bioterrorism. It then examines five recent emergencies—the 2001 anthrax attacks and 1993 cryptosporidium outbreak in the United States, the 2003 SARS outbreak in Toronto, the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease crisis, and the decade-long battle against Mad Cow Disease in the U.K. A perfect text for schools in public health, or as a reference for elected officials at every level of government, the book shows how each event developed step-by-step to pinpoint specific leade Download Who's In Charge? for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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