MICROBIOLOGY READING LIST

Alibek, Ken. Biohazard. Dell Publishing, 2000

Andrews, Michael. The Life that Lives on Man. Taplinger Publishing, 1977

Arrizablaga, Jon. The Great Pox. Yale University Press, 1997

Astor, Gerald. The Disease Detectives. New American Library, 1984

Atkinson, Donald T. Magic, Myths, and Medicine. FaWCETT, 1956

Atlas, Ronald. Many faces, Many Microbes. ASM Press, 2000

Barker, Rodney. And the Waters Turned to Blood: The Ultimate Biological Threat. Simon/Schuster, 1997

Barrett, Andrea. Ship Fever. NW Norton, 1995

Biddle, Wayne. A Field guide to Germs. Doubleday, 1996

Boudanis, David. The Secret House. Touchstone, 1986

Briggs, Raymond. Fungus the Bogeyman. Penguin Books, 1977 (1993)

Brock, Thomas. Robert Koch: A Life in Medicine. Science Tech Publishing, 1988

Brock, Thomas. Readings from Scientific America: Microorganisms from smallpox to Lyme Disease.

W.H. Freeman, 1990

Brock, Thomas. Milestones in Microbiology. ASM Press, 1999

Burnett, F.M. & David O. White. Natural History of Infectious Disease. Cambridge, 1966

Camus, Albert. The Plague. Random House, 1991

Camp, John. Magic, Myth, and Medicine. Taplinger Publishing, 1973

Cartwright, Fredrick F. Disease and History. Dorset Press, 1972

Christensen, C.M. Molds, Mushrooms, and Mycotoxins. University Minnesota Press, 1975

Cohen, Mark N. Health and the Rise of Civilization. Yale University Press, 1989

Collier, Richard. The Plague of the Spanish Lady: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919. Macmillan,

London,1974

Cook, Noble David. Born to Die: Diseases and New World Conquest, 1492-1650. Cambridge

University Press, 1998

Cook, Robin. Outbreak. Berkley Publishing Group,1988.

Cook, Robin. Contagion. G.P. Putnam,1995

Cook, Robin. Toxin. Penguin Books 1999

Cook, Robin. Vector.Berkley Publishing Group,2000

Cooke, R.C. Fungi, Man and His Environment. Longman,1977

Coulter, Harris and Barbara Fisher. A Shot in the Dark: Why the P in the DPT Vaccination May be

Hazardous to your Childs Health. Avery,1991

Cravens, Gwneyth & John S. Marr. The Black Death. Ballantine, 1979

Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park. Knopf, 1990

Crichton,Michael. The Andromeda Strain. Knopf, 1962 (1992)

Crosby, Alfred W. America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918. Cambridge University,1989

Dawood, Richard. How to Stay Healthy Abroad. Viking Penguin,1988

DeFoe, Daniel. Journal of the Plague Year. Penguin Group,1972

DeKruif, Paul. Microbe Hunters. Harbrace,1953

Desowitz, Robert. A Thorn in the Starfish: the Immune System and How it Works.WW Norton,1987

Desowitz, Robert. New Guinea Tape Worms and Jewish Grandmothers.WW Norton,1981

Desowitz, Robert. The Malaria Capers. WW Norton,1993

Desowitz, Robert. Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria. WW Norton,1997

Desowitz, Robert. Tropical Diseases: From 50,000 BC to 2500 AD. DIANE Publishing,2000

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: the Fates of Humna Societies. WW Norton. 1997

Dixon, Bernard. Magnificent Microbes. Atheneum,1976

Dixon, Bernard. Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World. W.H. Freeman,1989 (1994)

Dobell, C. Antony Van Leeuwenhoek and his "Little Animals". London: Bale Sons/Danielssons,1932 (1958)

Dubos, Rene. The White Plague. Rutgers University Press,1998

Eigen, Manfred. Steps Toward Life: A Perspective on Evolution. Oxford University Press,1992

Ewald, Paul. Plague Time: How Stealth Infections are Causing Cancers, Heart Disease, and other

Deadly Ailments. Free Press, 2000

Ewald, Paul W. Evolution of Infectious Disease. Oxford University Press,1994

Farrow, John. Damien the Leper. Bantam Books,1998

Findlay, W. P.K. Wayside and Woodland Fungi, F. Warne Publishing,1967

Ford, Brian J. Single Lens. The Story of the Simple Microscope.Harper & Row,1985

Fox, Nichols. Spoiled - The Dangerous Truth about a Food Chain Gone Haywire. Basic Books,1997

Fox, Nichols. Spoiled - Why Our Food is Making us Sick and What We Can Do About It.Paperback

Press,1998

Fox ,Nichols. It Was Probably Something You Ate. Viking Penguin Press,1999

Fuller, John G. Fever: The Hunt for a New Killer Virus. Grand Rapids,Zondervan Pub. House,1974

Garrett, Laurie. The Coming Plague. Viking Penguin,1995

Garrett, Laurie, Betrayal of Trust Hyperion Press, 2000

Garrittson, Tess. Gravity. Pocket Books,2000

Geison, Gerald L. The Private Science of Louis Pasteur. Princeton University Press,1995

Gilbert, Oliver. Lichens. HarperCollins,2000

Goodfield, June. Quest for the Killers. Birkhauser,1985

Gottfried, Robert S. and Phyllis Corzine. The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval

Europe. Free Press,1985

Hailey, Arthur. The Final Diagnosis. Bantam Books,1981

Hall Stephen S. Invisible Frontiers Race to Synthesize the Human Gene.Grove Atlantic,1987

Hardy, Victor. Milestones and Milestones.

Harris, Henry. The Birth of the Cell. Yale University Press,1999

Harrison, Gordon. Mosquitoes, Malaria and Man: A History of the Hostilities since 1880. E.P.

Dutton,1978

Howland, John, The Surprising Archaea. Oxford U. Press, 2000.

Hudler, George W. Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds. Princeton University Press,1998

Hunderfund, R. C.,Magic, Myths, and Medicine.Kendal/Hunt Publishing,1974.

Jones, James H. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Simon & Schuster,1992.

Jones, James H. Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study .University of North

Carolina Press,2000

Karlan, Arno. Man and Microbes. Simon & Schuster, 1995

Karlan, Arno. Biography of a Germ. Pantheon Books, 2000

Kiple, K. F. Plague, Pox & Pestilence. Barmes and Nobel Books, 1997.

Kirp, David L. Learning by Heart: AIDS and Schoolchildren in America's Communities. Rutgers

University Press,1989

Knutson, Roger M. Fearson Fauna: A Field Guide to the Creatures that Live in You. W. H.Freeman,1999

Kohn, G.C. Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence. Facts on File, Inc. 1995/2001

Kolata, Gina. Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that

Caused It. Simon & Schuster,2001

Lappe',Marc. Evolutionary Medicine: Rethinking the Origins of the Disease. Sierra Club Books,1994

Large, E.C. The Advance of the Fungi. Henry Holt & Company,1940

Leavitt,Judith. Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health. Beacon Press,1996

Larson, Gary. There's a Hair in My Dirt. Harper Collins,1998

Lechavalier, Hubert A. and Morris Solotrovosky. Three Centuries of Microbiology.McGraw-Hill, 1965

L'Estrange, Gerald. God Bless the Microscope! A history of the Royal Microscopical Society over 150

years. Royal Microscopical Soceity , Oxford, UK. 1989

Luria, S.E. A Slot Machine, A Broken Test Tube.Harper Trade,1984

Mclean, Alistair. The Satan Bug. Chivers,2000

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Alfred A. Knopf,1995

Margulis, Lynn. Early Life.Science Books International,1982

Margulis, Lynn. Symbiotic Planet: A New View of Evolution. Basic Books,1998

Margulis, Lynn and Rene' Fester. Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation, Speciation and

Morphogenesis. MIT Press, 1991

Margulis, Lynn and Dorian Sagan. Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution. Summit

Books,1986

Marr, John. The Eleventh Plague. Harper Collins,1998

McCormick, Joseph, Susan Fisher-Hoch, and Leslie Alan Horvitz. Level Four: Virus Hunters of the

CDC. Barnes & Noble, 1999

McNeil, William H. Plagues and Peoples. Doubleday,1976

Miller, Judith. Germs - Biological Weapons and America's Secret War. Simon and Schuster 2001.

Rathje, William and Cullen Murphy. Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. Harper Collins, 1992

Nesse, Randolf M. and George C. Williams. Why We Get Sick: The Science of Darwinian Medicine.

Times Books, 1994

Nikiforuk, Andrew. The Fourth Horseman: a short history of epidemics, plagues, famines, and other

scourges. M.Evans, 1993

Nourse, Alan Edward. The Fourth Horseman. Harper, 1983.

O'Hearn, Elizabeth. Profiles of Women Scientists. Acropolis Books, 1985

Oldstone, Michael. Viruses, Plagues and History. Oxford University Press,1998

Olshaker, Mark aand CJ Peters. Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World.

Doubleday, 1998

Porter, R. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind A Medical History of Humanity. W. W. Norton,1997

Postgate, John. Microbes and Man. Cambridge University Press, 1969 (3rd ed. 1992)

Postgate, John. The Outer Reaches of Life. Cambridge University Press,1994

Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone. Doubleday,1995

Preston, Richard. The Cobra Event. Random House,1998

Que'tel, C. History of Syphilis. Polity Press,1992

Ramsbottom, J. Mushrooms and Toadstools. Collins, London, UK, 1953 (1972)

Reddler, Kit and Gerry Davis. Mutant 59: The plastic eaters. Viking, 1972

Rhodes, Richard. Deadly Feast: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague. Simon &

Schuster,1997

Richards, Peter. The Medieval Leper. Boydell& Brewer, 2000

Root-Bernstein, Robert and Michele. Honey, Mud, Maggots, and other Medical marvels. Houghton

Mifflin, 1998

Rosebury, Theodore. Microbes and Morals: the Strange Story of Venereal Disease. Viking, 1971

Rosebury, Theodore. Life on Man. Penguin Putnam Childrens, 1969

Rosenberg, Charles E. The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866. University of

Chicago Press,1987

Rossmore, Harold W. The Microbes: Our Unseen Friends. Wayne State, 1976

Roueche, Berton. Field Guide to Disease: A Handbook for World Travelers. 1969

Roueche, Berton. Annals of Epidemiology, [14 Sherlock Holmes type stories]

Roueche, Berton. The Medical Detectives. 2 vol. Truman Talley, 1984 (St. Martin’s Press 1991)

Roueche, Berton. The Orange Man.

Roueche, Berton. Eleven Blue Men. Little, Brown, 1953

Ryan, F. The Forgotten Plague. Little, Brown, & Co.,1992

Sayre, Anne. Rosalind Franklin & DNA. WW Norton,2000

Schaechter, Moselio. In the Company of Mushrooms: A Biologists Tale. Harvard University

Press,1997

Schierbeek, A. Measuring the Invisible World. Abelard-Schuman, 1959

Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played on. St. Martin's Press, 1999

Slaughter, Frank G. Plague Ship. Pocket Books, 1976

Slaughter, Frank G. Epidemic. Doubleday,1961

Smith, Jane S. Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk vaccine. Doubleday & Co., 1991

Stein,Stanley and Lawrence G. Blochman. Alone No Longer the story of a man who refused to be one

of the living dead. The Star. Carville, LA,1963

Stewart, George R. Earth Abides. Fawcett Book Group,1971

Swigart, Rob. Toxin. St. Martin’s Press, 1989

Swigart, Rob. Vector. St. Martin's Press,1986

Taylor, Michael Ray. Dark Life: Martian Nanobacteria, Rock-eating cave bugs, and other extreme

organisms of the inner earth and outer space. Simon & Schuster Trade, 1999.

Thomas, Lewis R. Lives of a cell.Penguin,1975

Thomas, Lewis R..The youngest Science, notes of a medicine watcher. Viking Penguin,1995

Thomas, Lewis R. The Fragile Species. Harcourt Brace,1996

Thomas, Lewis R. The Medusa and the Snail. Viking Press,1979

Tomes, Nancy. The gospel of Germs: Men, Women and the Microbe in American Life. Harvard

University Press,1998

Tucker, Jonathan B. ,ed. Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons.

MIT Press,2000

Wainright, Milton. Miracle Cure, The Story of Antibiotics. Basil Blackwell,1992

Wasson, Gordon R. Soma: Divine mushroom of immorality. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971

Watts, Sheldon. Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism. Yale University Press,1997

Whelan, Elizabeth M. Toxic Terror: The truth behind the Cancer Scares. Prometheus Books,1992

Willis, Connie. Doomsday Book. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing group, 1993

Wills, Christopher. Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues.

Addison-Wesley, 1996

Ziegler, P. The Black Death. Sutton Publishing 1990 (1998)

Zimmerman, Barry E. and David J. Killer Germs - Microbes and Diseases that Threaten Humanity,

Contemporary Books, 1996

Zinsser, Hans. Rats, Lice, and History. Little Brown & Co.,1934 (1984)