Oxford American Handbook of Disaster Medicine

by Alexander G. Garza, Eric S. Weinstein, Ira Nemeth, et al.

Book Overview

Disasters are difficult to manage for many reasons: the immediacy of the event, magnitude of the event, lack of evidence-based practices, and the limited usefulness of many developed protocols. Consequently, combining academic approaches with realistic and practical recommendations continues to be an underdeveloped aspect of disaster texts. The Oxford American Handbook of Disaster Medicine offers a functional blend of science with pragmatism. Approached...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195379063
• ISBN13: 9780195379068
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 4.3" x 6.9"