BIQ:Immunology Texts

Immunology

While some of these texts show the challenges faced by researchers into immunology and disease, others follow the lives of individuals confronted by these issues in every day life.

Author Title Comment
le Caree, John Constant Gardener Tessa had been compiling data against a multinational drug company that uses helpless Africans as guinea pigs to test a tuberculosis remedy with unfortunately fatal side effects. Difficult to read and to follow.
Anderson, Laurie Halse Fever, 1793 Aladdin, 2002 In 1793 Philadelphia, 16-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of the yellow fever epidemic.
Brooks, Jerome
The Big Dipper Marathon Pocket Books, 1982
A fifteen-year-old's visit to relatives in Chicago gives him new insight into his struggle to decide the kind of life he will live as a victim of polio. �(Card catalog description)
DeFelice, Cynthia C
The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker Harper Trophy, 1998 After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice. (Card catalogue description)
Hesse, Karen
Letters from Rifka Hyperion, 1993
Refused passage in 1919 because she has ringworm, a young Jewish girl from Russia battles supercilious officials (School Library Journal)
Paton Walsh, Jill
A Parcel of Patterns Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992
When the plague came to in 1665, villagers isolated themselves to prevent further spread of the disease.
Weaver, Lydia
Close to Home: A Story of the Polio Epidemic
Sagebrush Education, 1999
In the summer of 1952, Betsy sees her vacation fun overshadowed by the spreading polio epidemic, while her mother and other scientists work frantically to develop a vaccine for the crippling disease
NON FICTION
Aaseng, Nathan The Disease Fighters: The Nobel Prize in Medicine. Lerner Publishing, 1987 Describes some of the major medical discoveries, such as the cure for tuberculosis and the cause of malaria, made by researchers who were eventually awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Cefrey, Holly
AIDS (Epidemics!) Rosen Pub Group, 2001
Brief and to-the-point, books in this series provide the history and future of these often studied diseases through an accessible format that will draw students to the occasionally graphic but informative content. (Voice of Youth Advocate Honor List)
de Kruif, Dr. Paul
Microbe Hunters Harvest Books, 2002.
The superheroes in this scheme are the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who wage active war against bacteria. (Ingram)
Giblin, James Cross
When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS HarperTrophy, 1997.
Parallels between the Black Death, smallpox, and AIDS.
Vine, Barbara Blood doctor History of research with blood
Adams, Richard Plague dogs Story from the point of view of animals used for research
Brooks, Geraldine Year of wonders Powerfully descriptive beginnng with all the pus and gore of the English plague
Rose, Malcolm Plague
Cook, Robin Coma Psychological thriller based aroung mysterious use of dead bodies

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From asmslibrary - 4/3/05 1:34 PM

Hard to add to the list because the tables jump around.

Last Modified 4/3/05 4:35 PM