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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.

Medical reference guides

Andrews, Marcia, ed. Everything You Need to Know About Diseases. Springhouse, 1996. Well-illustrated volume that covers more than 500 illnesses and conditions.

Berkow, Robert; Andrew J. Fletcher; and Mark H. Beers, eds. The Merck Manual of Medical Information. Merck Research Laboratories, 1997. A consumer version of Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy.

Hogan, Robert W. The PDR Pocket Guide to Prescription Drugs. 4th ed. Pocket Books, 2000. Reference for consumers on prescription medications.

Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins Family Health Book. HarperCollins, 1999. Comprehensive medical reference.

Springhouse Corporation. Everything You Need to Know About Medical Treatments. Springhouse, 1996. Prepared by a team of medical experts, this source covers more than 300 treatments.

Tapley, Donald F., ed. The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide. Crown, 1995.

Zaret, Barry L., and others, eds. The Patient's Guide to Medical Tests. Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Covers hundreds of commonly performed diagnostic tests; discusses test results and follow-up.

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Medicine

Friedman, Meyer, M.D., and Gerald W. Friedland, M.D. Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries. Yale University Press, 1998. From Vesalius and anatomy to Wilkins and DNA.

Glasser, Ronald. The Light in the Skull: An Odyssey of Medical Discovery. Faber & Faber, 1997. An informative survey of medical progress.

Gordon, Richard. The Alarming History of Medicine. St. Martin's, 1997. Witty observations on the history of medicine.

Kent, Jacqueline C. Women in Medicine. Oliver, 1998. For younger readers. Includes profiles of Virginia Apgar, Dorothy Lavinia Brown, Susan La Flesche Picotte, Alma Dea Morani, Elizabeth Blackwell, May Edward Chinn, and others.

Le Fanu, James, M.D. The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine. Carroll & Graf, 2000. History of the golden age of medicine in the 20th century.

Mann, John. Murder, Magic, and Medicine. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2000. History of medicine from ancient times to the present, focusing in particular on the rise of pharmacology from its early roots in folk remedies.

Nuland, Sherwin B., M.D. Doctors: The Biography of Medicine. Knopf, 1988, 1989. Lives of key physicians and surgeons throughout history. By the author of How We Live and How We Die.

Parker, Steve. Medical Advances. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1998. For younger readers. Overview of 20th-century developments for preventing diseases and relieving pain.

Starr, Paul. The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Basic Books, 1982, 1984. Pulitzer Prize-winning book considers medical care and medicine as a sovereign profession.

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