本教材共八章，内容涉及免疫系统、预防医学、慢性病、癌症、替代医疗（也称另类医疗）、营养、心理健康和医学道德。本教材在以英语语言教学为重心的基础上，帮助学生了解相关医学知识，并熟悉医学学科的语言特征和话语范式。每个章节设有课前阅读、课文、课文注解、词汇表、课后练习、语块知识点小讲座等环节，旨在提升学生用英语进行医学专业领域交流的技能和批判性思维能力。
本教材适合普通高校大学英语教学范畴中的专门用途英语课程教学，也可供广大英语爱好者自学使用。本教材配有优质音频资源，学生可直接扫码听音。

Chapter 1 The Immune System
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Texts
Text A Understanding the Immune System
Text B How to Boost Your Immune System
Part 3 Post-reading Exercises
Part 4 Mini-lecture
A Small Experiment
Chapter 2 Preventive Medicine
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Texts
Text A Preventive Health Care and Its Value
Text B Heart-health Screenings
Part 3 Post-reading Exercises
Part 4 Mini-lecture
Some Misunderstandings
Chapter 3 Chronic illnesses
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Texts
Text A A Brighter Holiday After a Pulmonary Hypertension Surgery
Text B A Sudden Detour for Heart Transplant
Part 3 Post-reading Exercises
Part 4 Mini-lecture
The Benefits of Learning Chunks
Chapter 4 Cancers
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Texts
Text A You Have to Have Faith to Survive
Text B A Difficult Journey as an AML Patient
Part 3 Post-reading Exercises
Part 4 Mini-lecture
The Categories of Chunks (Idioms and Collocations)
Chapter 5 Alternative Medicine
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Texts
Text A Herbal Therapy
Text B Benefits of Oncology Massage
Part 3 Post-reading Exercises
Part 4 Mini-lecture Binomials
Chapter 6 Nutrition
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Texts
Text A How Nutrition Plays a Role in Our Health
Text B How I Learned to Manage Anemia
Part 3 Post-reading Exercises
Part 4 Mini-lecture
The Categories of Chunks (Sentence Builders and Sub-technical Chunks)
Chapter 7 Mental Health
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Texts
Text A OCD: The Monster in My Mind
Text B Helping Someone with Depression
Part 3 Post-reading Exercises
Part 4 Mini-lecture
How to Group Chunks in a Vocabulary Notebook
Chapter 8 Medical Ethics
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Texts
Text A Medical Ethics Education Is Important
Text B Complex Ethical Decisions
Part 3 Post-reading Exercises
Part 4 Mini-lecture
Final Words on Chunks