Hunter College Libraries Blog

Hunter College Health Professions Library recently have added several hundred new books to its collection. Here is a sampling of several new titles in the following areas: nutrition/food science, medical lab sciences and environmental/occupational health. For additional titles, please check our newsletters.

Some highlights:

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto/ Pollan, Michael. The Penguin Press 2008. RA 784 .P643 2008. In Pollan’s latest book, he proposes that we “eat food, not too much, and mostly plants.” Pollan urges us to focus on eating “real” foods, as opposed to processed and refined foods, and challenges the nutrient approach to foods, or nutritionism. Our health cannot be divorced from the health of food chains of which we are part of.

Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies/ Landecker, Hannah. Harvard College 2007. QH 585.2 .L36 2007. This book offers a history of the development of cell culture in biology, and documenting and exploring the technique behind artificial form of cellular life.

Smelling Land: The Hydrogen Defense Against Climate Catastrophe/ Scott, David Sanborn. Canadian Hydrogen Assn. 2007. TP 359 .H8 S28 2007. Smelling Land gives a comprehensive examination of:

• architecture of civilization’s energy systems
• role of energy currencies
• evaluating environmental intrusion
• mechanisms and status of climate disruption
• sustainability and the reasons for a coming Hydrogen Age

Environmental and Occupational Health:

• Drugs and Drug Policy: the Control of Consciousness Alteration / Mosher, Clayton J., Akins, Scott. Sage 2007. HV 5825 .M69 2007
• Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants / Nelson, Lewis. Springer 2006. RA 1250 .N 46 2006 (Reference)
• The Power of Pills: Social, Ethical & Legal Issues in Drug Development, Marketing & Pricing / Cohen, Jillian Clare. Pluto Press 2006. RA 401 .A1 P69 2006

Medical Lab Sciences:

• Basic Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Estridge, Barbara H. and Reynolds, Anna. 5th Edition. Thomson Delmar Learning 2008. RB 37 .W25 2008
• Biotechnology for Beginners / Renneberg, Reinhard. Academic Press 2008. TP 248.2 .R465 2008
• Molecular Diagnostics: Fundamentals, Methods & Clinical Applications / Buckingham, Lela. F.A. Davis Company 2007. RB 43.7 .B83 2007
• Tietz’s Applied Laboratory Medicine / Scott, Mitchell. 2nd Edition. Wiley-Liss 2007. RB 37 .A715 2007

Nutrition/Food Science:

• Counselling Skills for Dietitians / Gable, Judy. 2nd Ed. Blackwell 2007. RM 218.7 .G33 2007
• Flavour in Food / Voilley, Andree; Etievant, Patrick. Woodhead. 2006. TX 541 F4995 2006
• Health Professional’s Guide to Popular Dietary Supplements / Fragakis, Allison Sarubin. 3rd Ed. American Dietetic Assn. 2007. RM 258.5 .S27 2007 (Reference)
• Jungle Effect: A Doctor Discovers the Healthiest Diets from Around the World- Why They Work and How to Bring Them Home / Miller, Daphne. Collins 2008. RA 776 .M54 2008
• Nutrition & Arthritis / Rayman, Margaret and Callaghan, Allison. Blackwell. 2006. RC 933 .R332 2006
• Pediatric Obesity: Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment Strategies for Primary Care / Hassink, Sandra G. American Academy of Pediatrics, 2007. RJ 399 .C6 H38 2007