《医学英语阅读教程》是在推进“新医科”建设背景下编写的、体现全新理念的医学英语教材。本教材充分体现英语教学的育人功能，融入医学人文、价值伦理、中国立场等内容；课文题材覆盖基础医学、临床医学、中医药、医学技术、公共卫生等领域，包括健康医学领域的核心范畴、前沿技术、行业标准、历史文化、健康治理等内容；体裁包括说明文、议论文、记叙文、应用文以及人物访谈等；练习注重思辨和创新能力培养，要求学生对健康医学领域的实际问题进行创新性解决，从而实现英语语言能力和医药卫生专业视野的双向拓展，提升他们在健康医学领域进行国际交流的能力。
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Contents
Chapter 1 Infectious Diseases and the Immune System
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Text Reading and Analysis
Text 1 How Your Immune System Reacts to the Common Cold?
Text 2 Vaccines Safeguard Our Health
Text 3 Does Exercise Boost Immunity?
Part 3 Post-reading Tasks
Chapter 2 Chronic Disease Management
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Text Reading and Analysis
Text 1 Strategies to Prevent Heart Disease
Text 2 Diabetes and Physical Activity
Text 3 How Social Media Is Changing Chronic iIInesses?
Part 3 Post-reading Tasks
Chapter 3 Cancer: Eliminate It or Live with It?
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Text Reading and Analysis
Text 1 Beating the Odds Against a Deadly Cancer
Text2 Can Statins Increase Lung Cancer Survival?
Text 3 What Is CAR-T Therapy?
Part 3 Post-reading Tasks
Chapter 4 Mental Disorders and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Text Reading and Analysis
Text 1 A Personal Story of Living Through Depression
Text 2 Obsessive-compulsive Disorder:When Unwanted Thoughts or Repetitive Behaviors Take Over
Text 3 What Is Dementia? Symptoms, Types,and Diagnosis
Part 3 Post-reading Tasks
Chapter 5 Alternative and Complementary Medicines:New Ways to Treat Diseases
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Text Reading and Analysis
Text 1 What You Should Know About Scraping Massage
Text 2 Traditional Chinese Medicine for Thyroid Disease
Text 3 The History of Naturopathy
Part 3 Post-reading Tasks
Chapter 6 Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Text Reading and Analysis
Text 1 The Discovery of Artemisinin
Text 2 The Impact of COVID-19 on Older Adults
Text 3 Vaccine Development and Testing
Part 3 Post-reading Tasks
Chapter 7 Medical Diagnosis and Nursing
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Text Reading and Analysis
Text 1 Critical Thinking in Nursing
Text 2 Why We still Use a 140-year-old Method to Diagnose UTls?
Text 3 Neurotechnologies
Part 3 Post-reading Tasks
Chapter 8 Medical Ethics in Clinical Practice and Research
Part 1 Pre-reading Tasks
Part 2 Text Reading and Analysis
Text 1 Ethics in Clinical Research
Text 2 Palliative Care: Support for Patients and Caregivers
Text 3 Narratives of the Human Plight: A Conversation with Jerome Bruner
Part 3 Post-reading Tasks
New Expressions
Keys to Exercises
References