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Web sites
The
Division of Medicine and Science at
the Smithsonian's National Museum of
American History acquires, preserves,
studies, and interprets the material
culture of
the
biological,
medical, and physical sciences.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/about/dept-detail.cfm?deptkey=43
Explore bioethics with a teen at the
University of Pennsylvania’s High
School Bioethics Project at http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/highschool/
(Some parts require free registration.
Get the latest information on how to
keep your heart healthy from the American
Heart
Association at http://www.americanheart.org/
The online version of the PBS series
Nova has a lot of useful resources to
accompany its episodes: “Cut to
the Heart” at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/heart/
and “Electric Heart” at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/
The famous walkthrough heart at the Franklin
Institute can be enjoyed from afar through
its virtual exhibition The Heart: An Online
Exploration at http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/biosci.html
Information about recent advances in
artificial heart surgery can be found
at The Implantable Artificial Heart Project
in Louisville, Kentucky: http://www.heartpioneers.com/index.html
Enjoy an interesting array of virtual
exhibitions on the history of medicine
at the National Museum of Health and Medicine:
http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/
Books
These books are suitable for students in
grades 7 and up:
Bankston, John, Robert Jarvik and
the First Artificial Heart, Mitchell
Lane Publishers, 2002.
Berger, Melvin, and Anne Green, The
Artificial Heart, Scholastic Library
Publishing, 1987.
Egendorf, Laura K., ed., Medical
Ethics: Current Controversies, Thomson
Gale, 2005.
Finn, Jeffrey, Eliot Marshall, and Dale
Garrell, eds., Medical Ethics,
Chelsea House Publications, 1990.
Giddens Sandra, and Owen Giddens, Future
Techniques in Surgery, Rosen Publishing
Group, 2002.
Judson, Karen, Medical Ethics: Life
and Death Issues, Enslow Publishers,
2001
McClellan, Marilyn, Organ and Tissue
Transplants: Medical Miracles and Challenges,
Enslow Publishers, 2003
Metos, Thomas H., Artificial Humans:
Transplants and Bionics, Julian Messner
Publications, 1985
Roleff, Tamara L., ed., Biomedical
Ethics: Opposing Viewpoints, Thomson
Gale, 1998
Torr, James D., ed., Organ Transplants,
Thomson Gale, 2002
Winters, Adam, Organ Transplant:
The Debate over Who, How, and Why,
Rosen Publishing Group, 2000
These books are more academic and appropriate
for advanced teens and adults:
Fox, Renée C., The Courage
to Fail: A Social View of Organ Transplants
and Dialysis, 2d ed., rev., University
of Chicago Press, 1978..
Fox, Renée C., and Judith P. Swazey,
Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in
American Society, Oxford University
Press, 1992.
Fye, W. Bruce, American Cardiology:
The History of a Specialty and Its College,
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Johnson Stephen L., The History of
Cardiac Surgery, 1896–1955,
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970.
Klaidman, Stephen, Saving the Heart:
The Battle to Conquer Coronary Disease,
Oxford University Press, 2000.
Judson, Karen, Medical Ethics: Life
and Death Issues, Enslow Publishers,
2001
Levy, Daniel, and Susan Brink, A
Change of Heart: How the People of Framingham,
Massachusetts, Helped Unravel the Mysteries
of Cardiovascular Disease, Knopf
Publishing Group, 2005
Plough, Alonzo L., Borrowed Time:
Artificial Organs and the Politics of
Extending Lives, Temple University
Press, 1986
Weisse, Allen B., Heart to Heart:
The Twentieth Century Battle against Cardiac
Disease: An Oral History, Rutgers
University Press,2002
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