The following suggestions are contributed by a reader under the name WolfBrother. Thanks, WB.
Readers with additional ideas are encouraged to contribute. – Doc Cindy
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The PAW (Post-Apocalyptic World) medical book list I give to folks is:
A list of books you might want to have/read/study before bad times happen.
1 – Get the Red Cross 1st Aid manual.
2 – TAKE THE COURSE
3.- Download/purchase what you can from below
4.- Get more training.
Remember – a book – a healer does not make.
Survival and Austere Medicine: An introduction
http://www.aussurvivalist.com/downloads/AM%20Final%202.pdf
Where There Is No Doctor
http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download_wtnd.php
Where There Is No Dentist
http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download_dentist.php
The Ship Captain’s Medical Guide
http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga07-home/workingatsea/mcga-medicalcertandadvice/mcga-dqs_st_shs_ships_capt_medical_guide.htm
Fundamental Skills in Surgery [Hardcover]
By Thomas F. Nealon, William H. Nealon
http://www.amazon.com/Fundamental-Skills-Surgery-Thomas-Nealon/dp/0721664601/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232219916&sr=1-1ISBN-10 : 0721664601
ISBN-13 : 9780721664606
Binding : Hardcover
Pages : 468
Publisher : W.B. Saunders Company
Fundamental Skills for Surgery
Richard Perry
http://www.amazon.com/Fundamental-Skills-Surgery-Iain-Skinner/dp/0074713353/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232219859&sr=1-2
ISBN13: 9780074713358,
ISBN10: 0074713353,
Division: Professional,
Pub Date: OCT-08,
Pages: 320
Edition: 02
Two sources
Ditch Medicine
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2205119/Ditch-Medicine-Advanced-Field-Procedures-For-Emergencies-1993
Ditch Medicine: Advanced Field Procedures For Emergencies (Paperback)
http://www.amazon.com/Ditch-Medicine-Advanced-Procedures-Emergencies/dp/1581603908/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232743604&sr=1-1
Hugh Coffee
ISBN-10: 1581603908
ISBN-13: 978-1581603903
ALL of the following books are in use over the world by those who are not necessarily trained in surgery to perform any number of surgeries.
[Begin_My_Opinion]
These 3 books are in the “Buy these to round out your already extensive Medical Library” category.
They are a bit pricey. The wikipedia source for copy/paste into Word/Print is incomplete.
[End_My_Opinion]
Primary Surgery: Non-Trauma v.1: Non-Trauma Vol 1 (Paperback)
by Maurice King (Editor), Peter C. Bewes (Editor), James Cairns (Editor), Jim Thornton (Editor)
Paperback: 656 pages
Publisher: OUP Oxford; New edition edition (14 Jun 1990)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0192616943
ISBN-13: 978-0192616944
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Primary-Surgery-Non-Trauma-v-1-Vol/dp/0192616943
Copy/Paste into word or print chapter by chapter – not all chapters are formatted nicely in the wikis:
http://ps.cnis.ca/wiki/index.php/Volume_I
Trauma: 2 (Primary Surgery) (Paperback)
by Maurice H. King (Author)
Paperback: 381 pages
Publisher: OUP Oxford (22 Jan 1987)
Language English
ISBN-10: 019261598X
ISBN-13: 978-0192615985
Copy/Paste into word or print chapter by chapter:
http://ps.cnis.ca/wiki/index.php/Volume_II
Primary Anaesthesia (Primary Surgery) (Paperback)
by Maurice H. King (Author)
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: OUP Oxford (19 Jun 1986)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0192615920
ISBN-13: 978-0192615923
One additional book suggested by one whom I know to be knowledgeable. I do not have the book nor have I read it.
It is on my list to get books.
Atlas of Minor Surgery
I.D. Cracknell & M.G. Mead
http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Minor-Surgery-Ian-Cracknell/dp/0443053049/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233412141&sr=1-2
Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company, 1 edition (June 1998)
ISBN-10: 0443053049
ISBN-13: 978-0443053047
Pages: 86
Available in German as well: http://www.amazon.com/Kleine-Chirurgie-Ian-D-Cracknell/dp/3456831315/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233412108&sr=1-3
