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Disease

Graham, Ian. Fighting Disease. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1995. For younger readers. Covers recent health innovations and discoveries; also includes discussions of public health issues, alternative medicine, and preventive medicine.

Hyde, Margaret O., and Elizabeth Held Forsyth. The Disease Book: A Kid's Guide. Walker, 1997. For younger readers. Describes many major diseases and disorders, both common and rare, and contains some case histories.

Karlen, Arno. Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times. Touchstone, 1996. A science writer explores the history of disease and epidemics, including recent outbreaks.

Loudon, Irvine, ed. Western Medicine: An Illustrated History. Oxford University Press, 1997, 2001. Traces the history of western medicine from ancient Greece to the present, with more than 150 illustrations. Includes an extensive list of suggested readings.

Porter, Roy, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Discusses the history of disease; the rise of medicine; medical science; hospitals and surgery; drug treatment; mental illness; and medicine, society, and the state. Contains a chronology and a table of major human diseases.

Porter, Roy. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. Norton, 1998. Highly acclaimed volume that describes medical thought and practices from ancient to modern times and documents changing attitudes toward health and disease.

For younger readers

Brodman, Michael, and others. Straight Talk About Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Facts on File, 1993. For high school readers.

Facklam, Howard, and Margery Facklam. Viruses. Twenty-First Century, 1994. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

Harris, Jacqueline L. Communicable Diseases. Twenty-First Century, 1993. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Harris, Jacqueline L. Hereditary Diseases. Twenty-First Century, 1993. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Hoff, Brent H., and Carter Smith. Mapping Epidemics: A Historical Atlas of Disease. Watts, 2000. For high school readers.

Hyde, Margaret O., and Elizabeth Forsyth. Know About Mental Illness. Walker, 1996. For middle school readers.

Landau, Elaine. Cancer. Twenty-First Century, 1994. For readers in grades 4 to 7.

Manning, Karen. AIDS: Can This Epidemic Be Stopped? Twenty-First Century, 1995. For middle school readers.

Ward, Brian. Epidemic. DK Publishing, 2000. An eyewitness guide, for readers in grades 4 to 7.

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