Books
Doctor Travel Chris has published multiple books on travel and tropical medicine—and a novel too!
FEATURE BOOK
Staying Healthy Abroad: A Global Traveler’s Guide
What to know before you go–the essential guide for staying healthy on the road.
“This compact, easy-to-read guide packs in information that is essential for any traveler.”
Christopher Van Tilburg, author of Mountain Rescue Doctor and Search and Rescue
“In thirty years of traveling to some 80 countries, all I can say is: I wish Christopher Sanford had written Staying Healthy Abroad decades earlier. He distills lots of potentially confusing information and his medical advice is bolstered by his own deep experience in remote locales.”
Carl Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wild Men of Borneo, Savage Harvest, and The Lunatic Express
FEATURE BOOK
Staying Healthy Abroad: A Global Traveler’s Guide
What to know before you go–the essential guide for staying healthy on the road.
“This compact, easy-to-read guide packs in information that is essential for any traveler.”
Christopher Van Tilburg, author of Mountain Rescue Doctor and Search and Rescue
“In thirty years of traveling to some 80 countries, all I can say is: I wish Christopher Sanford had written Staying Healthy Abroad decades earlier. He distills lots of potentially confusing information and his medical advice is bolstered by his own deep experience in remote locales.”
Carl Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wild Men of Borneo, Savage Harvest, and The Lunatic Express
Books
Doctor Travel Chris has published multiple books on travel and tropical medicine—and a novel too!
FEATURE BOOK
Staying Healthy Abroad: A Global Traveler’s Guide
Staying Healthy Abroad: A Global Traveler’s Guide
What to know before you go–the essential guide for staying healthy on the road.
What to know before you go–the essential guide for staying healthy on the road.
“This compact, easy-to-read guide packs in information that is essential for any traveler.”
Christopher Van Tilburg, author of Mountain Rescue Doctor and Search and Rescue
“In thirty years of traveling to some 80 countries, all I can say is: I wish Christopher Sanford had written Staying Healthy Abroad decades earlier. He distills lots of potentially confusing information and his medical advice is bolstered by his own deep experience in remote locales.”
Carl Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wild Men of Borneo, Savage Harvest, and The Lunatic Express
Books
Doctor Travel Chris has published multiple books on travel and tropical medicine—and a novel too!
FEATURE BOOK
Staying Healthy Abroad: A Global Traveler’s Guide
Staying Healthy Abroad: A Global Traveler’s Guide
What to know before you go–the essential guide for staying healthy on the road.
What to know before you go–the essential guide for staying healthy on the road.
“This compact, easy-to-read guide packs in information that is essential for any traveler.”
Christopher Van Tilburg, author of Mountain Rescue Doctor and Search and Rescue
“In thirty years of traveling to some 80 countries, all I can say is: I wish Christopher Sanford had written Staying Healthy Abroad decades earlier. He distills lots of potentially confusing information and his medical advice is bolstered by his own deep experience in remote locales.”
Carl Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wild Men of Borneo, Savage Harvest, and The Lunatic Express
The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual
The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual
5th Edition (Elsevier, 2016), which he edited with Drs. Paul Pottinger and Elaine Jong tincidunt …
5th Edition (Elsevier, 2016), which he edited with Drs. Paul Pottinger and Elaine Jong tincidunt …
“for The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual (for medical professionals)”
…a concise yet comprehensive guide covering a wide spectrum of knowledge across disciplines. It is a useful resource for all health professionals who are involved in travel health. This well-written manual serves as an excellent reference for many of the day-to-day issues encountered in a travel medicine practice as well as for medical providers who encounter patients with a post-travel problem.
An excellent, concise resource that provides practical information to travel and tropical medicine specialists, health care personnel who work with immigrant and refugee health, and primary care providers in internal medicine, family medicine, and pediatrics. The manual has relevant information for providers around the world, not just North America…The excellent, detailed sections on pretravel consultations and the evaluation of fever and skin lesions in returning travelers as well as parasitic infections make this book a miniature, highly concentrated opus on both travel and tropical medicine.
The greatest strengths of the manual continue to be its practical suggestions for counseling travelers prior to their departure and evaluating patients with post-travel illnesses… Clinicians who routinely evaluate patients before or after traveling should definitely consider purchasing this manual, reading select chapters in the pretravel and special travelers sections, and keeping it in their travel clinic as a useful reference.
The book is well structured with the content clearly presented and easy to find. It is packed with information and practical advice on common and rare conditions affecting international travelers. It covers topics less commonly found in traditional textbooks, such as cabin air quality, the effects of air pollution in the destination country and emerging infections. The text is complemented by informative tables, diagrams, maps of endemic zones and photographs of rare diseases… In its pocket-sized format, the book is a concise yet comprehensive guide covering a wide spectrum of knowledge across disciplines. It is a useful resource for all health professionals who are involved in travel health.
The Adventurous Traveler’s Guide to Health
The Adventurous Traveler’s Guide to Health
(University of Washington Press, 2008).
(University of Washington Press, 2008).
[The Adventurous Traveler’s Guide to Health] …
isn’t a heavy-going medical tome. It’s easygoing and witty, with chapters on what vaccinations are needed; advice on avoiding mosquito-transmitted illnesses, including malaria and the rapidly spreading dengue fever; how to avoid travelers’ diarrhea or deal with it if you get it; road safety; altitude sickness; traveling with children; and more.
Kristin Jackson, Seattle Times.
The greatest strengths of the manual continue to be its practical suggestions for counseling travelers prior to their departure and evaluating patients with post-travel illnesses… Clinicians who routinely evaluate patients before or after traveling should definitely consider purchasing this manual, reading select chapters in the pretravel and special travelers sections, and keeping it in their travel clinic as a useful reference.
Richard Cash MD, Senior Lecturer, International Health, Harvard School of Public Health.
is just the ticket. It covers everything the average hypochondriac would ask. (Japanese encephalitis? Check. Candiru fish invasion? Check.) But more importantly, he presents clear, concise information for all types of travelers, from what kind of shots to get to broad advice like, “Generally speaking, your experiences will be interesting in inverse proportion to the amount of money you spend.” (Note that he said “interesting,” not necessarily comfortable.) Common sense laced with humor pervades the book. While observing that road traffic accidents are much more widespread in developing areas and some parts of Europe, he makes the point that only 1 in 100,000 international travelers dies abroad, and that risk can be cut by wearing seat belts, staying off roads at night, not riding mopeds or motorbikes, not being macho and looking both ways. More exotically, the danger of being eaten by a lion can be avoided by staying in the van, just like the guide does. “You are food, you are prey, and you will not have time to explain your affinity for threatened species before . . . you become a snack.”
Each chapter begins with a section called “The Bottom Line” and ends with Q and A’s. In addition to the wealth of medical information Sanford provides, he also has good tips for a good trip: “Do not wait until you are at the mountaintop, or the temple, or the waterfall before you are open to have your touristic epiphany. Tourism is not geographically determined; it is determined by your attitude.” Don’t complain. Keep a journal. And remember, most people are sane; most people are honest; most people are nice. Words for life, not just a vacation.
Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness A handy and enlightening guide to various medical concerns faced in global travel, from immunizations to post-trip symptoms.– Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
