New Year's Greetings! This might be of interest to some in the HOT community, although not directly related to mapping, it is related to one of most common reasons we do map, public health.
The latest edition of a leading medical textbook on parasite caused diseases (like malaria) was published in the last few months and the authors have made the PDF version of the textbook available as a free, easy download. http://www.parasiteswithoutborders.com/parasitic-diseases-6th-edition/ It is a textbook intended for medical students and is written using very technical medical terminology so it is not easy to read even for native English speakers who are not in the medical or scientific fields. I do a lot of google'ing while I slowly read it. This is probably the leading textbook for medical students taking a parasitic diseases course and it is quite incredible that the authors have found a way to make it available for free. They are very eager get this book into the hands of anyone who is interested or can make use of the information, regardless of ability to pay for the book. Regards, Blake PS: Two of the authors also do a semi-weekly podcast about parasitic diseases, describing in detail an actual case each week and describing how the diseases present themselves, life cycle of the parasites, diagnostic techniques, treatments, etc. http://www.microbeworld.org/podcasts/this-week-in-parasitism -- ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot HOTOSM Member - https://hotosm.org/users/blake_girardot skype: jblakegirardot Live OSM Mapper-Support channel - https://hotosm-slack.herokuapp.com/ BE A PART OF HOT'S MICRO GRANTS: https://donate.hotosm.org/ _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot