Resources:
Print and Media

Breast Cancer: The Complete Guide, 3rd ed.
Hirshaut, Yashar, and Pressman, Peter I. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 2000.

Cancer Warrior

This NOVA episode looks at the latest developments in cancer science. The entire episode may be downloaded from the Cancer Warrior from NOVA online. The Web site features additional material and a teacher's guide.

Medicines: The Inside Story

Sponsored by Glaxo Wellcome, Inc., a CD-ROM based on the traveling museum exhibition that toured five major cities in the United States from 1996-1999. It is an interactive trip through a virtual gallery, which enables the viewer to learn about the history of medicines, about diseases and therapeutic approaches, follow a medicine from discovery to patient's bedside, make and test your own (virtual) medicine, and travel inside a human body to learn how a medicine works at the molecular level.

Murder, Magic, and Medicine

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

Radar, Hula Hoops and Playful Pigs

Schwarcz, Joe. Toronto: ECW Press, 1999. This very readable book covers many aspects of the chemistry of everyday life, including lots of information on the phytochemistry of health and nutrition, very applicable to the section on Preventing Cancer.

SourceBook Version 2.1

Orna, Mary Virginia, Schreck, James O., and Heikkinen, Henry, eds. New Rochelle, NY: ChemSource, 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.