Interested in the
health sciences? Check out the following resources related to science and medicine!
Selected Career Guides at Parks Library
- Careers in health care / Barbara
M. Swanson, R697 A4 S93 2005
- Careers in science / Thomas Easton,
Q147 E27 2004
- Great jobs for biology majors
/ Blythe Camenson. QH314 .C35 2004
- On becoming a biologist / John
Janovy, Jr. QH314 J36 2004
- The Yale guide to careers in medicine
& the health professions : pathways to medicine in the twenty-first century
/ edited by Robert M. Donaldson, Jr., Kathleen S. Lundgren, Howard M. Spiro.
R690 Y35 2003
- Physician assistants in American
medicine / Roderick S. Hooker, James F. Cawley. R697.P45 H66 2002
- Opportunities in pharmacy careers
/ Fred B. Gable. RS122.5 G3 2004
- Opportunities in health and medical
careers / Leo Paul D'Orazio and I. Donald Snook, Jr. R690 D67 2004
- What can you do with a major in
biology? / Bart Astor. QH314 A88x 2005
Admissions Guides
- 2009-2010 Medical School Admission
Requirements. Published by the Association of American Medical Colleges. (Career
Table: R838 As78a
- Health Professions Career and
Education Directory. Published by the American Medical Association. 2007-2008
edition. (Career Table: R847 A41)
Reading for Fun!
Anatomy
Hayes, B. Anatomist: A True Story
of Gray's Anatomy, 2008. QM16 G73 H39 2008
Chemistry
Le Couteur, P. and Burreson, J. Napoleon's Buttons : How 17 Molecules Changed
History, 2003. QD37 L34x 2003
QD37 L34x 2003
Chronic
Illness
Groopman, J. The Anatomy of Hope:
How People Prevail in the Face of Illness, 2004, R726.5 G76 2004
Martensen, R. Life Worth Living:
A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era
Medical Training
Chen, P. Final Exam: A Surgeon's
Reflections on Morality, 2007. RD27.35 C47 A3 2007
Jauhar, S. Intern: A Doctor's
Initiation, 2008. R154 J39 A3 2008
Klass, P. Treatment Kind &
Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor, R690 K62 2007
Konner, M. Becoming a Doctor : A
Journey of Initiation in Medical School, 1987. R154.K44 A3 1987
Montross, C. Body of Work: Meditations
on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab, QM28 M66x 2007
Ofri, D. Incidental Findings: Lessons
from my Patients in the Art of Medicine, 2005. R705 O38 2005
Ofri, D. Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue, 2003
Pories, S., Jain, S. H., Harper, G.,
Groopman, J. E. (eds.). The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face
Life and Death, 2006
Rothman, E. L. White Coat : Becoming
a Doctor at Harvard Medical School, 1999. R154 R755 A3 1999. A female perspective
about Harvard Medical School.
Takakuwa, K. M., Rubashkin, N., Herzig,
K.E (eds.) What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctors,
2004. R705 W48 2004. A collection of short essays.
Transue, E. On Call - A Doctor's
Days and Nights in Residency, 2004. R154 T673 A3 2004
Weaver, J., McEvoy, M., Myers, D.
and Coupey, S. eds. Becoming a Doctor: Reflections of First-Year Medical
Students, 2006.
Young, A. What Patient's Taught Me:
A Medical Student's Journey, 2004.
Medicine
Coles, R. and Testa, R. (eds.) A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology,
2002
Fadiman, A. The Spirit Catches You
and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two
Cultures, 1998. RA418.5 T73 F33 1998
Groopman, J. Second Opinions: Stories
of Intuition and Choice in a Changing World of Medicine. 2000
Groopman, J. The Measure of
Our Days: New Beginnings at Life's End. 1997
Groopman, J. How Doctors Think. 2007 R723.5 G75 2007
Mackowiak, PA. Post Mortem: Solving
History's Great Medical Mysteries, 2007. R705 M28 2007
Remen, R. N. My Grandfather's Blessings:
Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging, 2000
Remen, R. N. Kitchen Table
Wisdom: Stories That Heal, 1996
Roueche, B. The Medical Detectives,
1980
Straus, E. W. and Straus, A. Medical
Marvels: The 100 Greatest Advances in Medicine, 2006. R131 S83 2006
Nursing
Gordon, S. Nursing Against the Odds : How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes,
and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care, 2005. RT86.5 G67 2005
Physician Biographies
Austin, P. Something for the Pain: One Doctor's Account of Life and Death
in the ER, 2008.
Banov, CH Office Upstairs: A Doctor's
Journey, 2007
Bliss, M. Harvey Cushing: A Life
in Surgery, 2005. RD592.9 C87 B55 2005
Carson, B. Think Big: Unleashing
Your Potential for Excellence, 1992. Biography about an African-American neurosurgeon.
Collins, M. J. Hot Lights, Cold Steel
: Life, Death, and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years, 2005.
Firlik, K. Another Day in the Frontal
Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside, 2006
Gawande, A. Complications: A Surgeon's
Notes on an Imperfect Science, 2002. RD27.35 G39 A3 2002
Gawande, A. Better: A Surgeon's Note
on Performance, 2007. RC66 G39 2007
Kidder, T. Mountains Beyond Mountains:
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, 2003. R154 F36 K53 2003
McCrae, D. Every Second Counts: The
Race to Transplant the First Human Heart, 2006
Mohrmann, M.E. Attending Children:
A Doctor's Education, 2005
Nielsen, J. Ice Bound : A Doctor's
Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole, 2001. RC280 B8 N54x 2001
Ruhlman, M. Walk on Water: The Miracle
of Saving Children's Lives
Transue, E. Patient by Patient:
Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing from a Doctor's Practice, 2008.
R154 T673 A3 2008
Verghese, A. The Tennis Partner:
A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss, 1998.
Verghese, A. My Own Country: A Doctor's
Story of a Town and its People in the Age of AIDS, 1994. Dr. Verghese is an
infectious disease specialist who began practicing in 1985 in Johnson City, TN.
In five years, he had cared for over 80 AIDS patients.
Vertosick, Jr., F. When the Air Hits
Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery, 1996.
Ziegler, E. Emergency Doctor
Cardiology
Monagan, D.
Journey into the Heart:
A Tale of Pioneering Doctors and Their Race to Transform Cardiovascular Medicine,
2007. RC666.5 M66 2007
Morris, CR. The Surgeons: Life
and Death in a Top Heart Center, 2007.
Pharmacy
Angell, M. The Truth about
the Drug Companies : How they Deceive Us and What to Do About It, 2004. HD9666.5
.A74 2004
Avorn, J. Powerful Medicines :The
Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs, 2004. HD9666.5 .A94 2004
Baenninger, A. Good Chemistry : the
Life and Legacy of Valium Inventor Leo Sternbach, 2004. RM666 B42 G66 2004
Jeffreys, D. Aspirin : The Remarkable
Story of a Wonder Drug, 2004. RM666 A82 J44 2004
Hager, T. The Demon Under the
Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search
for the World's First Miracle Drug, 2006. RM666 S9 H34 2006
Hawthorne, F. Inside the FDA : The
Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat, 2005.
RA401 A3 H39 2005
Kassirer, J. P. On the Take : How
America's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health, 2005. R725.5
K376 2005
Moynihan, R. and Cassels, A. Selling
Sickness : How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning us All
into Patients, 2005. HD9665.5 M69x 2005
Neuroscience
Kurson, R. Crashing
Through: A True Story of Risk Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See. 2007
Anatomy and Physiology
Hayes, B. Five Quarts
: A Personal and Natural History of Blood, 2005. QP91 H454 2005
Roach, M. Stiff : The Curious Lives
of Human Cadavers, 2003. R853 H8 R635 2003
History of Medicine
Fenster, J. M. Mavericks,
Miracles, and Medicine : The Pioneers who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine
Into the Modern Age, 2003. R134.5 F46x 2003
Myers, MA Happy Accidents: Serendipity
in Modern Medical Breakthroughs, 2007. R149 M49 2007
Rutkow, I. M. Bleeding Blue and Gray
: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine, 2005. E621 .R88
2005
Diseases
Cardiovascular Disease
Levy, D. and Brink, S. A
Change of Heart : How the Framingham Heart Study Helped Unravel the Mysteries
of Cardiovascular Disease, 2005. RA645 C34 L48 2005
Cholera
Johnson, S. The Ghost
Map, 2006. RC133 G6 J64 2006
Influenza
Barry, J. M. The Great Influenza : The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague
in History, 2004. RC150.4 B37 2004
Byerly, C. R. Fever of War : The
Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I, 2005. RC150.4 B946
2005
Infectious Disease
Nagami, P. The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious
Disease
Crawford, DH. Deadly Companions:
How Microbes Shaped Our History. 2007. RA649 C73 2007
Waltner-Toews, D. The Chickens
Fight Back: Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases That Jump from Animals to Humans.
2007. RA641 B5 W35 2007
Insect Bites
Nagami, P. Bitten: True
Medical Stories of Bites and Stings, 2004. RD96.2 N34 2004
Lou Gehrig's Disease
Estess, J. and Estess, V.
Tales from the Bed: A Memoir, 2004
Weiner, J. His Brother's Keeper:
One Family's Journey to the Edge of Medicine, 2004
Multiple
Sclerosis
Murray, T. J. Multiple
Sclerosis : The History of a Disease, 2005. RC377 M88 2005
Polio
Kluger, J. Splendid Solution : Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, 2004.
QR31.S25 K58 2004
Oshinsky, D. M. Polio : An American
Story, 2005. RC181 U5 O83 2005
Shell, M. Polio and Its Aftermath
: The Paralysis of Culture, 2005. RC181 U5 S53 2005
Wilson, D. J. Living with Polio :
The Epidemic and Its Survivors, 2005. RC180.2 W47 2005
Yellow Fever
Crosby, MC. The American Plague:
The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic that Shaped our History. 2006.
RC211 T3 C76 2006
Journals and magazine are a great way
to keep up with current events related to medicine and science. These are just
a few titles:
New England Journal of Medicine - See
Medical Education & Training Collection.
Journal of the American Medical Association
Annals of Internal Medicine
Science
Nature
Scientific American
Other
Literature, Arts, and
Medicine Database (http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Main?action=new)
Literature and Medicine, a reading list compiled by Syracuse University (http://hpap.syr.edu/book.htm)
Writings
by Abraham Verghese, M.D.
Writings by Atul Gawande, M.D.
Bellevue Literary Review (http://www.blreview.org/)
Content last updated 11/12/2008
Links last checked 11/12/2008
Compiled by Andrea L. Dinkelman, Assistant Professor/Science & Technology
Librarian
Parks Library
Iowa State University
adinkelm@iastate.edu