Essential Health Links: Fulltext E-Books
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FreeBooks4DoctorsHelping Health Workers Learn
Hesperian Foundation: Downloadable Books
Landes Bioscience Handbooks
Medical Student.com: Textbooks
Merck Manuals/Online Medical Library of Diagnosis and Therapy
Merck Manual of Geriatrics
NCBI Booklist
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FreeBooks4Doctors (French,
German, Portuguese, Russian,
Spanish)
This site is a gateway to full-text medical books available
on the Internet. Access to the links is organized by medical
specialty or language (English, Spanish or German). Many of
the titles are relevant for health professionals in
developing countries. http://www.FreeBooks4Doctors.com/fb/special.htm
Helping Health Workers
Learn (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
(Spanish)
The site links to the fulltext pdf. version of 'Helping
Health Workers Learn', a book of methods, aids, and ideas for
instructors at the village level. Including hundreds of
drawing and photographs, it has been written for instructors
and health workers who serve the underserved in developing
countries. The material is available in Spanish and is
authored by David Werner and Bill Bower. http://healthwrights.org/books/helpinghwlearn.htm
Hesperian
Foundation: Downloadable Books (Focus on
Low-Income Countries)
(Spanish)
This site lists a series of primary care books specifically
designed for health workers developing countries. As of
December 2006, it contains the links to the fulltext (pdf)
versions in English and Spanish: Where There Is No Doctor,
Where Women Have No Doctor, HIV Health and Your Community,
Helping Children Who are Blind, Helping Children Who are
Deaf, A Book for Midwives, A Factory Worker's Guide to
Organizing for Safe Jobs and Health Communities, Where There
Is No Dentist, Women's Health Exchange: A Resource for
Education and Training, and, in Spanish, Donde No Hay Doctor
Para Mujeres. The material is published and updated by the
Hesperian Foundation, a U.S. based NGO. http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php
Landes Bioscience
Handbooks
The Landes Bioscience website contains links to over 40
fulltext medical and surgical handbooks that are resources
for practical information. Also available via Eurekah.com are
over 1200 chapters of current research books. Access to the
developing world is free but registration is required.
Contact Sara Lord for registration information. http://landesbioscience.com/handbooks/
Medical
Student.com: Textbooks
Medical Student.com is targeted mainly to students in North
America and Europe, but is increasingly international in its
scope. The textbooks section contains links to online
textbooks by broad subject. The site itself is a digital
library of authoritative medical information designed to help
all students of medicine. Links to other sites are selected
by a process of peer review. http://www.medicalstudent.com/#MedicalTextbooks
Merck
Manuals/Online Medical Library of Diagnosis and
Therapy
The site includes the latest edition to the Merck Manual of
Diagnosis and Therapy, a basic clinical and pharmacological
tool that provides useful clinical information to physicians,
medical students, interns, residents, nurses, pharmacists,
and other health-care professionals in a concise, complete,
and accurate manner. The Merck Manual covers internal
medicine, paediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics, gynaecology,
dermatology, pharmacology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and
a number of specialist subjects. http://www.merck.com/mmpe/index.html
Merck Manual of
Geriatrics
The 2nd edition of this publication contains links from an
extensive table of contents and a keyword search engine. The
online version includes updates of selected topics since the
2000 publication. http://www.merck.com/mkgr/mmg/home.jsp
NCBI
Booklist
The NCBI Bookshelf is a
collection of free biomedical books. The E-Books are accessed
by keyword searching and also are also linked to terms in
PubMed abstracts. This service is maintained by the National
Library of Medicine, U.S.
http://www.healthnet.org/essential-links/fulltext-e-books.html
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Updated: 26 February 2008