Resources:
Print and Media

The Evolutionary Arms Race
Part 4 of the PBS series Evolution. This video documetary explores the development of resistant and virulent microbes in response to human-created evolutionary pressures, and how evolutionary pressures might also be applied to make microbes less harmful. It provides an excellent illustration of how evolution works and insight into modern attempts to control infectious disease; highly recommended. This 1-hour video is available on VHS from WGBH Boston for $19.95, and may be purchased at the Evolution Shop.

Host-Induced Epidemic Spread of the Cholera Bacterium

D. Scott Merrell, Susan M. Butler, Firdausi Qadri, Nadia A. Dolganov, Ahsfaqul Alam, Mitchell B. Cohen, Stephen B. Calderwood, Gary K. Schoolnik, Andrew Camilli, Nature, vol. 417, pp. 642-5, 6 June 2002. This report describes research showing that cholera bacteria become more virulent when living in human intestines.

Human Hosts Help Cholera Bacterium Become More Infectious

Rachael Moeller, Scientific American, 6 June 2002. A summary of the above paper from Nature, rendered more accessible to high school students.

Murder, Magic, and Medicine

John Mann, Oxford University Press, 1994, Oxford, U.K. This book offers a lively telling of the story of medicine from ancient times to the present.

SourceBook Version 2.1

Orna, Mary Virginia; Schreck, James O., and Heikkinen, Henry editors, ChemSource, Inc., 1998. This is a comprehensive four-volume resource, that includes sections on many chemical subjects, including medicinal chemistry and acid-base chemistry, among others. SourceBook is especially useful for teachers of chemistry whose backgrounds are in nonchemistry subjects. This and other ChemSource products are available from the American Chemical Society. For more information, call 1-800-227-5558, or e-mail: service@acs.org.