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.
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.
Koplow, David A.Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge. University of California Press, 2003. A brief history, a description of viruses, and a look at potential uses of the virus in biological warfare.
Tucker, Jonathan B.Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox. Grove/Atlantic, 2001. Provides a history of the disease and discusses the current debate over destruction of the smallpox virus.
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