Book recommendation

Re: Book recommendation

mariette asselbergs — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 22:42:11 GMT

Calvin Schwabe Veterinary Medicine and Human Health, sounds boring but is enormously well written and has all the classic and heroic discovery stories of One Health with the vets' unique contributions at centre. Especially inspiring to show that vet medicine has so much more to offer than practice only.

Mariette

Re: Book recommendation

Julian Earl — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:41:42 GMT

For all things veterinary: what about the Merck Veterinary Manual. Covers all clinical aspects, unless you're thinking of beginning at the beginning , in which case surely an Anatomy or Physiology book would be a more useful reference?

Re: Book recommendation

Martin Atkinson — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:55:50 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"]

That would be more likely to put them off. What about Martin's book?

Wynne

[/quote]Funny you should mention it but one review by Mike Nelson (amongst other complimentary things) said: 'If anyone you know says he or she wants to be a vet, this is a book worth buying for Christmas'.

Now whether he meant if would encourage them or put them off for life I'm not sure!

However just in case here's the link to Kindle again or contact me directly: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Test-Patients-experiences-musings-veterinary-ebook/dp/B00JVTM284/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402661231&sr=1-1&keywords=a+test+of+patients+martin+atkinson

PS I realise this Kindle link is probably not of much use to the OP other than a brief preview and as Michael has suggested its not available in paper-back from usual sources. So email me at martin@gconnect.com.

Re: Book recommendation

Marie Kubiak — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:31:46 GMT

What about a book to help them apply to vet school - I'd have appreciated that as a sixth former?

The one I know is:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vet-School-My-Foot-Door/dp/0956122442

but there are a few out there.

Marie

Re: Book recommendation

Utlendigur — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:06:49 GMT

Pet Hates - Josh Artemeier

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre?

(I read and reread My Family and other Animals too - great book. Or same author, The Amateur Naturalist)

Re: Book recommendation

Bob Russell — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 14:50:13 GMT

Gerald Durrell book? My Family and Other Animals is a real favorite of mine to this day.

Beautifully written as well so should keep the English department happy!

One of the later books if this is already in the library! Available as The Corfu Trilogy but as far as I know this is a paperback or kindle only.

Re: Book recommendation

Hannah Wynne Richards — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:43:52 GMT

That would be more likely to put them off. What about Martin's book?

Wynne

Re: Book recommendation

CatherineThomas — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:21:12 GMT

What about an anatomy and physiology text book? I had a great one recommended to me by my a-level biology teacher which was also useful in the first couple of years at uni even though it was human anatomy.