Books For Travelers & Travel Medicine
Clinics
In the following, I have made
comments about books with which I am familiar. Check the web address, your
bookstore or online store.
The Complete Medical Tourist: Your Guide to
Inexpensive and Safe Cosmetic, Medical and Dental Surgery Overseas
by David Hancock.
Paperback, Copyright March 1, 2006
Dental Handbook for Short-Term Missions
by Jack E. & Nardos Shuler.
This pamphlet has been prepared for the short-term missionary
dentist.
Do's and Taboos Around the
World for Women in Business
by Roger E. Axtell, Tami Briggs, Margaret Corcoran, Mary Beth Lamb
Flying Without Fear
by Tessa Duckworth and David Miller,
Sheldon Press, London
ISBN 0-85969-401-1
Global Etiquette Guide to Africa and the Middle East
by Dean Foster
Global Etiquette Guide to Asia
by Dean Foster
Global Etiquette Guide to Europe
by Dean Foster
Global Etiquette Guide to Mexico and Latin America
by Dean Foster
Handbook of Medicine In Developing Countries
by Dennis Palmer, DO. and Catherine E. Wolf, MD 2nd Ed.
I have found this book very helpful. It
is a collaboration of two missionary doctors and written for medical students, nurses, PAs
and physicians doing medical work in developing countries.
Handbook for Short-Term Medical Missionaries
by Dr. Bruce and Michelle Steffes.
A book not just for short-term and not just for medical
missionaries.
Health Information For International Travel
2008: CDC Yellow Book
by the CDC, Phyllis Kozarsky, Paul Arquin, Christie Reed. ISBN#
0323048854
Available at
http://bookstore.gpo.gov/ or
International Travel Health Guide
by Stuart Rose, MD and Jay Keystone, MD,
2006, 13th Ed., Elsevier.
Downloadable PDF version or printed version available at
www.travmed.com
A concise book for travelers which covers many areas of travel
medicine you may not have considered. It contains a summary of travel related diseases
for over 200 countries. Also, very
handy for nurses, PAs and physicians practicing travel medicine.
Mission Survival Kit
by Drs. David Stevens and Gene Rudd
Specifically deals with how to get ready for a short term mission trip.
Patients Beyond Borders: Everybody's Guide to
Affordable, World-Class Medical Tourism
by Josef Woodman.
Paperback, Copyright March 12, 2007
Patients Beyond Borders Singapore Edition:
Everybody's Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Tourism
by Josef Woodman.
Paperback, Copyright July 30, 2007
Safe Passage Travel
Companion
Available at
www.yoursafepassage.com
This is a DVD course with strategies and training for individuals and corporations to minimize
risks while traveling.
Staying Healthy On Hajj Or
Umrah
by Hakim Luqman, MD and Aletha Luqman, MSN, CRNP
Sold as a practical book for those making a
pilgrimage to Mecca.
Travel Medicine, 2nd Edition - Expert Consult
Edited by Jay S. Keystone, MD, Phyllis E. Kozarsky, MD, David O.
Freedman, MD, Hans D. Nothdurft, MD and Bradley A. Connor, MD
Mosby Title
ISBN: 978-0-323-03453-1
Copyright 2008
These editors are certainly well known in travel medicine, so I would
expect this book to be a useful tool for the travel medicine clinic.
Traveling Everywhere: How To Survive A Global Business Trip
by P. A. Tucci
The Travel & Tropical Medicine Manuel
by Elaine Young, MD and Russell McMullen, MD
Paperback, 664 pages
ISBN:
0-7216-7678-2
W.B. Saunders Company, 3rd Ed., 2003.
This is an excellent reference for nurses, PAs and physicians practicing
travel medicine. Reviews travel medicine concerns, as well as
tropical medicine.
Travelling Well
by Dr. Deborah Mills
13th Ed., Nov. 2006. Australia. |
Available at
www.travellingwell.com.au
Translated into Braille and Vietnamese, and available in a PDF format
e-book and a printed version.
The Travel Doctor
by Mark Wise
Published by Firefly Books, Sept. 2002.
ISBN: 1552976688
Canadian Author
Lonely Planet Books
www.lonelyplanet.com
Rick Steves' Travel Books, Videos, etc.
www.ricksteves.com
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