Selected Non-Fiction Books about Microbiology, Virology, or Recombinant DNA that I like. - Dr. P

Barker, And the Waters Turned to Blood. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1997. Discovery of Pfiesteria piscicida in North Carolina.

Brock, Thomas D. Milestones in microbiology.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1961.
ETSU C. C. SHERROD Books Call Number: 576.08 B782

Clark, Charles F. AIDS and the arrows of pestilence. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Pub., 1994.
ETSU C. C. SHERROD Books  Call Number:  RA644.A25 C53 1994

de Kruif, Paul. Microbe Hunters. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1926.
ETSU C. C. SHERROD Books Call Number: 920 D369

Microbe hunters, then and now / edited by Hilary Koprowski, Michael B.A. Oldstone.
Bloomington, Ill. : Medi-Ed Press, 1996.

Dixon, Bernard. Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World.
New York: W.H. Freeman. 1994.

Doka, Kenneth J. Doka. AIDS, Fear, and Society. Washington, DC:  Taylor and Francis. 1997

Gold, Michael. A conspiracy of cells : one woman's immortal legacy and the medical scandal it caused. (HeLa cells)
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1986.
ETSU C. C. SHERROD Books Call Number: RC267 .G64 1986

Johnson, Mahlon. Working on a Miracle.New York: Bantam Books.1997. HIV and antiretroviral drugs.

Jones, James Howard. Bad blood : the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan Publishers, c1981.
ETSU KINGSPORT Books Call Number:  R853.H8 J66 1981
ETSU MEDICAL Books Call Number: WG 160 J77b 1981

Klein, Aaron, E. Trial by Fury:  The Polio Vaccine Controversy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1972.
ETSU C. C. SHERROD Books Call Number: RA.644.P9 K58

Klitzman, Robert. The trembling mountain : a personal account of kuru, cannibals, and mad cow disease.
New York : Plenum Trade,1998.
ETSU C. C. SHERROD Books Call Number:RA644.P93 K57 1998

Kolata, Gina Bari. Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead. (paperback 1999)

Kolata, Gina Bari. Flu : the story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1999.
ETSU C. C. SHERROD Books Call Number:  RC150.4 .K64 1999

Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. (Paperback - November 1996)

McCormick, Joseph and Susan Fisher-Hoch. Level 4:  Virus Hunters of the CDC. Atlanta: Turner Publishing. 1996.

McNeill, William Hardy. Plagues and peoples. Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press, 1976.
ETSU C. C. SHERROD Books Call Number:  614.4 M233

Oldstone, Michael B. A.  Viruses, plagues, and history.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.Contents: Introduction -- Virology -- Immunology -- Success stories -- Smallpox -- Yellow fever -- Measles virus --Poliomyelitis -- Present and future challenges -- Newly emerging viral plagues -- The Hemorrahgic fevers-- Lassa fever -- Ebola -- Hantavirus -- HIV infection -- AIDS -- Mad cow disease -- Spongiform encephalopathies -- Influenza virus -- Conclusions and future predictions.

Peters, C.J. Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World. New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday. 1997.

Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone. New York : Random House,1994. Ebola.
ETSU C. C. SHERROD Books Call Number:  RC140.5 .P74 1994

Regis, Edward.Virus Ground Zero : Stalking the Killer Viruses With the Center for Disease Control.
 
Rhodes, Richard. Deadly Feasts : tracking the secrets of a terrifying new plague. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1997. ETSU C. C. SHERROD Books. Temporarily Shelved at ETSU C. C. SHERROD New Books (First Floor)
Call Number: RA644.P93 R46 1997

Ryan, Frank. Virus X : Tracking the New Killer Plagues Out of the Present and into the Future. 1997.

Shilts, Randy. And the band played on : politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.
New York : St. Martin's Press, c1987.
ETSU C. C. SHERROD Books Call Number:  RA644.A25 S48 1987

Verghese, Abraham. My own country : a doctor's story of a town and its people in the age of AIDS. 1994.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1994.
Location: ETSU C. C. SHERROD Books Call Number: RA644.A25 V47 1994
Location: ETSU MEDICAL Books Call Number: WZ 350 V496m 1994

James D. Watson, Lawrence Bragg(Foreword).  The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Mass Market Paperback - February 1991)

Zimmerman, Barry E. and David J. Killer germs : microbes and diseases that threaten humanity.
Chicago, Ill. : Contemporary Books, c1996.
ETSU MEDICAL Books Call Number:  WC 100 Z72k 1996

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