Comments | cyphomandra: And yet more catching up

cyphomandra

And yet more catching up

Mar 28, 2007 22:35

My books-read-and-not-recorded stack is approaching ridiculous lengths. Leaving out books I want to discuss at more length, here are some catch-ups.

( Blood Price, Tanya Huff. )

lee child, reginald hill, liz williams, david wotton, garth nix, tanya huff, book reviews

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tacithydra March 29 2007, 17:07:36 UTC

Looking forward to the weekend...

Heh.

What's the name of the nonfiction book on the history of medicine? That sounds really interesting.

cyphomandra March 30 2007, 11:01:22 UTC

It's called Bad Medicine, by David Wotton - he has a website, which I shall now fail to link to (still mastering lj), at Bad Medicine, which includes a link to the TLS review whence I picked up on its existence. As I said, it's depressing about how doctors (just like everybody else) prefer their own firmly held beliefs to statistically valid evidence - there's an early study that showed how incredibly effective bleeding was at speeding recovery from pneumonia... at least, that is, until you realise that the patients bled earliest and heaviest were also the youngest and most healthy.

tacithydra March 31 2007, 20:04:33 UTC

You have successfully linked!

:: wishlists ::

You realize that once I am paid real money, I will be in danger of buying everything on my Amazon wishlist? There will be no room left for me to live, with all the books.

And yeah, Bad Medicine looks great - classic example of handwaving the issues with the data analysis in some studies to support one's POV.