Medical English

Lesson One
Text:Smoking and Health
Supplementary Reading:How Does Smoking Damage the Lungs?
Lesson Two
Text:Why Are You Laughing?
Supplementary Reading:Respiration and the Upper Respiratory Infection
Lesson Three
Text:Foods That Fight Aging
Supplementary Reading:Calories——Units of the Energy Value of Foods
Lesson Four
Text:Indigestion,Heartburn and Ulcers
Supplementary Reading:Why Some People Are Never Happy?
Lesson Five
Text:Let's Work Together!—A Call to America's Physicians and the Public We Serve
Supplementary Reading:Two Pioneers in Medical Science
Lesson Six
Text:Darwin and His Theory of Evolution
Supplementary Reading:Vaccination
Lesson Seven
Text:What Is Disease
Supplementary Reading:A New Mysterious Disease—Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Lesson Eight
Text:Do We Need Extra Vitamins?
Supplementary Reading:Essential Nutrients
Lesson Nine
Text:Medicine
Supplementary Reading:Food Cure Some Diseases
Lesson Ten
Text:Infeetion
Supplementary Reading:Flu—a Highly Contagious Disease
Lesson Eleven
Text:Doing Science
Supplementary Reading:Science and Social Values
Lesson Twelve
Text:Evolution and Natural Selection
Supplementary Reading:The Study of Biology
Lesson Thirteen
Text:Safe Concentrations of Chemicals
Supplementary Reading:Nicotine Withdrawal Problem
Lesson Fourteen
Text:The Spurt in Modern Medicine
Supplementary Reading:Rapid Progress in Modern Medicine
Lesson Fifteen
Text:Physiology
Supplementary Reading:Physiology
Lesson Sixteen
Text:Physiological Processes
Supplementary Reading:How the Human Body Is Built?
Lesson Seventeen
Text:Pathology
Supplementary Reading:Scientific Method
Lesson Eighteen
Text:Blood—the Major Transportation Fluid
Supplementary Reading:Transfusion and Blood Types
Lesson Nineteen
Text:Maternal and Infant Health
Supplementary Reading:Blood Vessels
Lesson Twenty
Text:The Interview
Supplementary Reading:Diagnosis,Treatment and Prevention
Lesson Twenty-one
Text:Describing Disease Patterns
Supplementary Reading:Body Defences against Infections
Lesson Twenty-two
Text:Repairing the Mind with Machines:the Supernormal Possibilities of Neural Prosthetics
Supplementary Reading:Possible Cause of Cancer
Lesson Twenty-three
Text:The Fascinating World of the Unborn
Supplementary Reading:Blood Pressure
Lesson Twenty-four
Text:Robots Roll into Operating Rooms(Ⅰ)
Supplementary Reading:Studies of Effects of Noises on Human Health
Lesson Twenty-five
Text:Robots Roll into Operating Rooms(Ⅱ)
Supplementary Reading:Nature and Sources of Pollution
Lesson Twenty-six
Text:The Future of Transplan tation
Supplementary Reading:Clinical Findings of Acute Appendix
Lesson Twenty-seven
Text:Health Program Evaluation—Foreword
Supplementary Reading:Chronic Renal Failure
Lesson Twenty-eight
Text:Medical Sociology
Supplementary Reading:Economic Importance of Disease
Lesson Twenty-nine
Text:The History of Immunology
Supplementary Reading:Antibodies and Immunity
Lesson Thirty
Text:Molecular Biology
Supplementary Reading:How Do Our Bodies Make Blood?
Appendix 1 Common Medical Prefixes,Suffixes and Constituents
Appendix 2 Prescription
Appendix 3 Label and Description
Appendix 4 Certificate
Appendix 5 Note