Cañada College Library’s

Resources on the History of Medical X-rays

Come on in and use the resources listed below that have been put on reserve for your class!

Resources on reserve can be used in the Library for a period of two hours. In addition, there is a photocopy machine that you may use to copy resources you would like to take home.

The Library phone number is (650) 306-3267

Email: pattersond@smccd.edu

Hours:

Mon – Thurs: 8 AM – 8 PM

Friday: 8 AM to 3 PM

Sat – Sun: Closed

Books

Alder, Robert E. Medical firsts : from Hippocrates to the human genome. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2004.

Kevles, Bettyann. Naked to the bone : medical imaging in the twentieth century. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1997.

McClafferty, Carla Killough. The head bone’s connected to the neck bone : the weird, wacky, and wonderful x-ray. New York : Farrer, Straus, and Giroux, c2001.

Mould, Richard F. A century of x-rays and radioactivity in medicine : with emphasis on photographic records of the early years. Bristol : Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub., c1993.

Mulcahy, Robert. Medical technology : inventing the instruments. Minneapolis : Oliver Press, c1997.

Articles

These articles have been compiled and are on Reserve in the Library. Ask for the black binder called History of X-Rays at the front desk.

Assmus, Alexi. Early history of x-rays. Beam Line, summer 1995.

Farmelo, Graham. The discovery of x-rays. Scientific American, 0036-8733, November 1, 1995, Vol. 273, issue 5.

Guy, Jean. The X factor in X-rays : (researchers suffered health consequences). History Today, v45. n11 (Nov. 1995) : pp9(4).

Hessenbruch, Arne. A brief history of x-rays. Endeavour, December 2002, Vol. 26, issue 4, pp 137-141.

Linton, Otha W. and Joseph Marasco. Radiology: a century of progress. World Health, May-June 1995, v. 48, n3 : pp4(1).

Nolan, Daniel J. 100 years of x rays: they turned medicine inside out. British Medical Journal, March 11, 1995, v. 310, n6980 : pp614(2).

“Wilhelm Conrad ROntgen.” Notable Scientists: From 1900 to the present. Gale Group 2001. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006.

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