Hot Spot
How Seattle became the place for infectious diseases research
Published on 30. June 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
228 pages
979-8-218-00277-0 (ISBN)
Description
How did Seattle become home to some of the world's most influential infectious-diseases researchers?
Hot Spot tells the story of young physician-scientists drawn to the "off you go" spirit of the Pacific Northwest. A University of Washington researcher discovered scores of new sexually transmitted pathogens and created a widely copied "Seattle model" to treat and prevent them. Another led clinical trials for the world's first antiviral therapy. Others found ways to protect immune-weakened patients from deadly infections after a bone marrow transplant.
Such innovations put Seattle at the forefront of both the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the new field of global health. When COVID-19 emerged, Seattle was ready.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
377 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-218-00277-0 (9798218002770)
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Mary Engel is an award-winning healthcare writer who has worked for newspapers in California, Alaska, and New Mexico and as a science writer for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The editorials she wrote for the Los Angeles Times were part of a 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning series on mismanagement, malpractice, and racial injustice at a public hospital. She has been a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, a science journalism fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and a Salzburg Seminar Knight Media Fellow on multicultural healthcare in Salzburg, Austria. She lives in Seattle.