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Logistics in The Falklands War

Captain Arthur M. Smith The recent Australian Defence White Paper 2016 defined the unique security challenges facing thenation. Strategic planning within the document includes recognition of the regional and global…

High G Flight: Physiological Effects and Countermeasures

P. Leggat High G flight is a significant challenge facing crew in high performance military aircraft, spacecraft, and in some other settings, such as acrobatic and tourismbased fighter jet aircraft…

Constant Care

Reviewed by CAPT RMSG John Knight (Retired) The subtitle of the book is "The Royal Australian Navy Health Services, 1915 to 2002." The dedication is to the memory of all…

Framework for a Public Health Emergency Operations Centre

In 2013, the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre Network (EOC-NET) of the World Health Organization (WHO) embarked on a project to develop a framework for public health emergency operation centres…

The Practical Compendium of Immunisations for International Travel

In the context of protecting travellers going abroad, “vaccination is a highly effective method of preventing certain infectious diseases”.1 At last here is a practical manual for travel immunisations which…

Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine* Peter Cameron, George Jelinek, Anne-Marie Kelly, Anthony F.T. Brown and Mark Little

*4th edn, 1104 pp, paperback with illustrations, ISBN: 978-0-7020-5335-1. Sydney, Churchill Livingstone (an imprint of Elsevier), RRP: $114.74, 2014. The International Federation for Emergency Medicine definition of emergency medicine is…

Pioneers of Medicine without a Nobel Prize* Gilbert Thompson (Editor)

*Thompson G (Ed). Pioneers of Medicine without a Nobel Prize. London: Imperial College Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-78326-383-7. Hardback. 296 pp USD128 (also available as softcover and eBook) The Nobel Prize…

Starlight: An Australian Army Doctor in Vietnam

Tony White* *1st edn,xii + 183 pp, with illustrations, hardback, RRP $33.00, ISBN 987-1-876344-689, Brisbane, Australia, CopyRight Publishing Company, 2011. Australia is fortunate to have a significant repository of historical…

Epidemiology

Petra Buttner and Reinhold Muller* *1st edn, (xxiv) + 600 pp, paperback with extensive illustrations, Oxford, Oxford University Press, RRP: $83.95, 2011. ISBN: 9780195573893 The field of epidemiology is a…

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Toxicology Handbook

Lindsay Murray, Frank Daly, Mark Little and Mike Cadogan* *2nd edn, xii + 529 pp, paperback with illustrations, ISBN: 978-0-7295-3939-5. Sydney, Churchill Livingstone (Imprint of Elsevier), RRP: $69.95, 2010. There…