Medical Library

Books: Get Up Close with Infectious Diseases

 

Poster accompanying the book display. Features a woman scientist of color standing over a microscope and wearing a lab coat. Text reads "Quillen College of Medicine presents...Get up close with Infectious Disease" and provides instruction to visitors to bring the book and their ETSU ID card to the service desk to check out any of the books.

The current book display in the library lobby features an assortment of texts on infectious diseases, from Ebola to influenza to Zika. These include scientific and historic texts, as well as a couple of fiction books just for fun. Titles include:

  • The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History (Caldwell Crosby)
  • The Andromeda Strain (fiction; Crichton)
  • Blindness (fiction; Saramago)
  • Bugs as Drugs: Therapeutic Microbes for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Britton & Cani, eds.)
  • The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Garrett)
  • Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (Offit)
  • Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History (Crawford)
  • The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story (smallpox; Preston)
  • The Doomsday Book (fiction; Willis)
  • Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus (Quammen)
  • The Economics of Infectious Disease (Roberts)
  • Essential Epidemiology: An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals (Webb, Bain, Page)
  • The Fever: How Malaria has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 years (Shah)
  • The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (cholera; Johnson)
  • The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Barry)
  • The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Kelly)
  • A History of Poliomyelitis (Paul)
  • The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Vius (Preston)
  • House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox (Foege)
  • In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History (Black)
  • Influenza: A Century of Science and Public Health Response (Dehner)
  • Jenner’s Smallpox Vaccine: The Riddle of Vaccinia Virus and Its Origin (Derrick)
  • Love in the Time of Cholera (fiction; García Márquez)
  • The Mississippi Valley’s Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 (Khaled)
  • Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Man: A History of the Hostilities Since 1880 (Harrison)
  • New and Evolving Infections of the 21st Century (Fong)
  • Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Shah)
  • Plague: An Ancient Disease in the Twentieth Century (Gregg)
  • Polio: An American Story (Oshinsky)
  • Polio and its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture (Shell)
  • Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (Fenn)
  • Princes and Peasants: Smallpox in History (Hopkins)
  • Smallpox: The Death of a Disease (Henderson, Preston)
  • Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Quammen)
  • Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis (Bynum)
  • Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 (Czerwiek)
  • Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases (Offit)
  • Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver (Allen)
  • The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease (Valley Fever, AIDS, chickenpox, and others; Nagami, Gonzalez-Crussi)
  • Zika: The Emerging Epidemic (McNeil Jr.)

The majority of these books are new to the library’s collection. A variety of ebooks for reference on infectious disease topics are available via our subscriptions to Clinical Key and Access Medicine. Library users with interest in these topics may also wish to schedule a visit to the Museum at Mountain Home, whose medical history artifacts include an iron lung (commonly used during polio outbreaks) and other relevant objects.  

Thanks to Taylor Campbell and Biomedical Communications for the poster design for this book display. The display will remain up until early 2019. 

 

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