由刘泽华和雷蕾共同主编的《医学文化英语教程》一书避开令人望而生畏的专业医学知识，集医学文化与趣味性于一体，通过介绍医学文化内容来提高学生的英语阅读水平，培养其独立阅读医学英语书刊的能力，拓宽视野：同时有针对性地提高学生的医学文化素养，是连接普通英语与专业医学英语之间不可多得的桥梁教程。

由刘泽华和雷蕾共同主编的《医学文化英语教程》一书以医学文化为切入点，通过介绍医学文化内容来提高学生尤其是医学生的英语阅读水平。不同于普通医学英语教材，此书是基于内容的，旨在培养医学生独立阅读医学英语书刊的能力，拓宽其眼界，而不仅仅拘泥于医学词汇和英语语言技能。本书涉及内容广泛，以医学为中心，展现其与法律、伦理、宗教以及艺术和科幻等领域的领域交汇与碰撞。文章的选择具有较强的专业性，所涵盖的内容生动有趣，同时又能考察和提高学生的医学和英语能力。

Unit 1 Disease

 Text A Intensive Reading

Piercing the Fog Around CeHphones and Cancer

 Text B Fast Reading

Washington Post Opinion：HIV Treatment Can Be HIV Prevention

 Text C Extensive Reading

Diabetes？Some Beat It，but Are They Cured？

 Text D After-Class Reading

Can You Inherit Your Mother’s Health？

Unit 2 Breakthroughs

 Text A Intensive Reading

Penicillin’s Discovery

 Text B Fast Reading 26

The Social History of the Birth Control Pill

 Text C Extensive Reading

Viagra：The Magic Blue Pill

 Text D After-Class Reading

Latest Medical Breakthroughs

Unit 3 Medicine and Law

 Text A Intensive Reading

Abortion and the Tragedy of the World’s Missing Women

 Text B Fast Reading

A Wave of Addiction and Crime，with the Medicine

Cabinet to Blame

 Text C Extensive Reading

Don’t Wait to Make Your End-of-LifeWishesKnown

 Text D After-Class Reading

Euthanasia

Unit 4 Medicine and Ethics

 Text A Intensive Reading

Should the Condom Come with a Health Warning？

 Text B Fast Reading

Physician—Patient Relationship

 Text C Extensive Reading

Addressing Issues of Moral Complicity：When？Where？Why？And Other Questions

 Text D After·Class Reading

Violating Ethics：Unlawful Combatants，National Security and Health Professionals

Unit 5 Iconic Figures in Medicine

 Text A Intensive Reading

Emil von Behring：Medicine’s First Nobel Laureate

 Text B Fast Reading

Rosalind Franklin-Mystery Woman：The Dark Ladr of DNA

 Text C Extensive Reading

New American Heart Association President Driven by Family History

 Text D After·Class Reading

The Oath：Meaningless Relic or Invaluable Moral Guide？

Unit 6 Medicine and Arts，Religion，Sci-Fi

 Text A Intensive Reading

Painting with Penicillin：Mexander Fleming’s Germ Art

 Text B Fast Reading

Ethical Failures Found on“Grey’s Anatomy”and“House”

 Text C Extensive Reading

Medicine and Religion Collide in Chemo Refusal

 Text D After-Class Reading

We Can Rebuild Them．We Have the Technology

Unit 7 Cloning and Transplantation

 Text A Intensive Reading

What Are the Ethical Issues Regarding Human Cloning？

 Text B Fast Reading

Organ Donation：Let the Market Rule？

 Text C Extensive Reading

Is Research Cloning Different from Reproductive Cloning？

 Text D After-Class Reading

General Leaflet on Religious Viewpoints

Unit 8 Epidemics

 Text A Intensive Reading

30Years In，WeAre Still Learning fromAIDS

 Text B Fast Reading

What We Learned From H1N1’s First Year

 Text C Extensive Reading

Drive to Stem Shingles Meets Few Expectations

 Text D After—Class Reading

Surveillance for Pneumonic Plague in the United States During an International Emergency

Unit 9 TraditionaI Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine 16f

 TextA Intensive Reading 16I

Acupuncturists Building Bridges with Western Medicine

 Text B Fast Reading 166

Traditional VS．Western：Which 0ne Is Easier for Chinese Consumers to Swallow？

 Text C Extensive Reading

Balancing Needles and Cigars

 Text D After-Class Reading

A Spoonful of Foreign Culture Helps Western Medicine Go Down

Unit 10 Food

 Text A Intensive Reading

Food and Drink

 Text B Fast Reading

Race to Introduce Genetically Modified Maize to Stave off Climate Change Impacts in Africa

 Text C Extensive Reading

Genetically Altered Salmon Get Closer to the Table

 Text D After-Class Reading

Nuclear Crisis：How Safe Is Japan’s Food and Water？

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