BKINYPHM.RVW  960130
 
"The Internet Health, Fitness and Medicine Yellow Pages",
Naythons/Catsimatides, 1995, 0-07-882188-6, U$22.95
%A   Matthew Naythons health@epicenter.com
%A   Anthony Catsimatides anthony@plannet.com
%C   2600 Tenth St., Berkeley, CA   94710
%D   1995
%G   0-07-882188-6
%I   Osborne McGraw-Hill
%O   U$22.95 800-227-0900 1-800-2-MCGRAW FAX: 1-717-794-2080
%O   lkissing@osborne.mhs.compuserve.com
%P   346
%T   "The Internet Health, Fitness and Medicine Yellow Pages"
 
A few years back, a friend working at an ISP (Internet Service Provider)
company asked for a listing of health related resources on the net.  While
there have been medical researchers using the net almost since its inception,
the best I could come up with was a list of mailing lists and newsgroups--a
couple of dozen altogether.  That was the old time style of Internet usage: if
you were interested in a topic you got onto the lists you could and made
contact with people who knew of other lists and sites.
 
Times change.  Want to know about AIDS, allergies, cancer, diabetes, exercise,
headaches, RSI (repetitive strain injury), or stress?  It's all here: or, at
least, the pointers are all here.  (Well, *almost* all here.  For personal
reasons my two immediate interests were kidney stones and gall stones and
neither has a listing.  It is, of course, always possible that there is nothing
on the net on those two topics, but it seems unlikely.)  The format follows the
style of the "Internet Yellow Pages" (cf. BKINTYLP.RVW).
 
This compendium is likely to be of use to medical students and researchers who
are looking for resources slightly out of their specialty.  However, it is much
more likely to be of use to Mom.  Many families invest in a home medicine book
for those "three-in-the-morning" complaints.  The book doesn't have the
answers, but the Internet does.  And it never closes.
 
(Do I have to stress the dangers of self diagnosis?  Well, if boxes of "Kitty-
Litter" still have to have labels telling people not to eat the stuff ...)
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996   BKINYPHM.RVW  960130

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