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Suggested Reading List
This list is just a beginning of all the resources
available for interested pre-professional health students.
Great new books about medicine and other issues in professional
health care and career topics are published all the
time. Feel free to visit the Xavier
University library, The
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
or amazon.com
to search for new releases in medical interest areas.
You should also keep yourself current by regularly reading:
The New York Times, Discover, American Medical News,
Scientific American, and the Journal of the American
Medical Association, among others.
A free, nonprofit online publication written to
help premedical students develop an understanding of
the field of medicine is Next
Generation (www.NextGenMD.org).
The Next Generation provides a glimpse into the world
of medicine beyond television and popular literature
by providing an overview of many issues facing health
professionals today.
The site contains information about the real-world experiences
of
physicians and explores issues at the heart of the medical
profession.
Next Generation
is written and managed by undergraduate premedical students,
but editors of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM),
provide advice and oversight. NEJM is also providing
the financial support for the site. Check it Out!
Fiction
Lewis S. Arrowsmith. New York: Penguin Books, 1924, 438pp. (Timeless
classic!)
Reynolds R, Stone J, eds.
On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Essays.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995, 448 pp.
Schiedermayer D.
House Calls, Rounds, and Healings: A Poetry Casebook.
Tucson, AZ: Galen Press, 1996 100 pp.
Seizer R. Letters
to a Young Doctor.
New York: Touchstone Books, 1982, 205 pp.
Shem S. The
House of God. New
York: Dell, 1978, 429 pp. (Again, a classic read)
Non-Fiction
The
Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine
by Frank Huyler
Theater
of Disorder : Patients, Doctors, and the Construction
of Illness
by Brant Wenegrat (Hardcover -- October 2001)
Doctoring:
The Nature of Primary Care Medicine
by Eric J. Cassell (Hardcover -- July 1997)
Medical
Work in America: Essays on Health Care
by Eliot Freidson (Paperback -- October 1989)
Nurses
and Doctors at Work: Rethinking Professional Boundaries
by Deidre Wicks (Hardcover -- October 1998)
Medical
Choices, Medical Chances: How Patients, Families, and
Physicians Can Cope With Uncertainty
by Harold J., M.D. Bursztajn, et al (Paperback -- February
2001)
Wrapped
in Mourning: The Gift of Life and Donor Family Trauma
by Sue Holtkamp (Hardcover -- May 2001)
Promoting
the Human-Animal Bond in Veterinary Practice
by Thomas E. Catanzaro (Paperback -- June 2001)
The
Difficult Patient
by Joy Duxbury (Paperback -- May 15, 2000)
The
Power of Hope: A Doctor's Perspective
by Howard Spiro (Hardcover -- December 1998)
Assisted
Suicide: Finding Common Ground
by Lois Snyder (Editor), Arthur L. Caplan (Editor) (Hardcover
-- December 15, 2001)
Principles
of Biomedical Ethics
by Tom L., Ph.D. Beauchamp, James F., Ph.D. Childress
(Paperback -- February 15, 2001)
Cases
in Bioethics : Selections from the Hastings Center Report
by Bette-Jane Crigger (Editor) (Paperback -- January
1999)
Intending
Death: The Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
by Tom L. Beauchamp (Editor), Tom L. Beaucham (Editor)
(Paperback -- July 26, 1995)
Issues
in Health Care Ethics
by Eileen P. Flynn (Paperback -- July 22, 1999)
Ward
Ethics: Dilemmas for Medical Students and Doctors in
Training
by Thomasine K. Kushner (Editor), David C. Thomasma
(Editor) (Paperback -- August 2001)
Confessions
of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy
by Alfred I. Tauber (Hardcover -- December 1998)
A
Short History of Medical Ethics
by Albert R. Jonsen (Hardcover -- January 15, 2000)
Tuskegee's
Truths : Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (Studies
in Social Medicine)
by Susan M. Reverby (Editor) (Paperback -- July 2000)
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Common Problems: Ethics in Primary Care
by Jeremy Sugarman, Jeremy Sugarman M.D. M.P.H. M.A.
(Paperback -- March 15, 2000)
Life
in the Balance : Emergency Medicine and the Quest to
Reverse Sudden Death
by Mickey S. Eisenberg (Hardcover -- July 1997)
The
Ethics of Managed Care: A Pragmatic Approach
by Mary R. Anderlik (Hardcover -- August 15, 2001)
Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives
Emergency
Doctor
by Edward Ziegler
Kill
As Few Patients As Possible
by Oscar London
Intensive
Care: A Doctor's Journal
by John F., Md. Murray
Baby
E.R. : The Heroic Doctors and Nurses Who Perform Medicine's
Tiniest Miracles
by Edward Humes
The
Real Deal: Stories from the ER
by Roxy Martin
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