Foundation Year Recommended Booklist

Foundation Year Recommended Booklist – 2010/11

BIOLOGY LIST

GENERAL TEXTS

SOLOMON, BERG"Biology"

& MARTIN:8th Ed. 2007, Brooks/Cole; Thomson Learning.

D. D. CHIRAS:"Human Biology"

5th Ed. 2005, Jones and Bartlett.

ADDITIONAL READING

BRUCE ALBERTS et al"Essential Cell Biology"

2nd Ed. 2004, Garland Publishing.

PAUL GARD:"Human Endocrinology"

2nd Ed. 2004, Taylor and Francis.

*R, S, HINE & E. A. MARTIN:“ A Dictionary of Biology “

6th Ed. 2008, OxfordUniversity Press,

KEYNES R. D. & AIDLEY D. J."Nerve and Muscle"

3rd Ed. 2001, CambridgeUniversity Press.

*E. LAWRENCE:"Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms"

14th Ed. 2008, Longman.

BERNARD E. MATTHEWS:“An Introduction to Parasitology"

1998, CambridgeUniversity Press,

R. L. NUSSBAUM et al:“Thompson and Thompson Genetics in Medicine”

7th Ed. revised 2007, W B Saunders Company.

*M. THAIN & M. HICKMAN:"The Penguin Dictionary of Biology"

11th Ed. 2004, Penguin.

* = one of these.

PRACTICALS

W. H. FREEMAN &"An Advanced Atlas of Histology"

B. BRACEGIRDLE: Heinemann.

(introductory text with good monochrome micrographs; unfortunately this has not been reprinted but try to find a secondhand copy)

CHEMISTRY:

The following is a core text and covers most of the organic chemistry component of the Foundation Year Curriculum.

Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry, 6th Edition, by J. McMurry and E. Simanek,2007, Thomson, Brooks/Cole, (ISBN: 0-495-12590-3)

There is a study guide and solutions manual accompanying this textbook that contains all the answers to the problems in the text - ISBN: 0-495-01932-1. This is an optional purchase.

There are numerous other textbooks available for consultation in the library and the following in particular are recommended.

Organic Chemistry, A Short Course, 12th edition, byHart, Craine, Hart, HadadHoughton Mifflin Company, 2007 (Previous editions of this book, which may be available from past students of the course, are also adequate).

Fundamentals of General, Organic and Biological Chemistry, by John R. Holum, Sixth Edition, John Wiley & Sons Inc. (Publishers).

Chemistry by R. Chang, Fifth Edition, McGraw-Hill (Publishers).

Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity, International Edition7e by Kotz/Treichel/Townsend

Chemical Principles by W. Masterton, E.J. Slowinski and C.L. Stanitski, 6th edition.

General Chemistry by D.A. McQuarrie and P.A. Rock

Basic Inorganic Chemistry by F. A. Cotton and G. Wilkinson

Biochemistry by L. Stryer

Physics

It is sufficient to own one good textbook covering a range of general Physics topics at a fairly fundamental/basic level. However, the Physics courses within Foundation Year at RCSI are very different from the Leaving certificate, IB, or A-level courses in that it emphasizes the medical applications of many of the basic principles, and hence it is essential that students consult textbooks dealing specifically with medical applications.

The lecture notes are based mainly on the following textbooks (although some material may be obtained from other sources);

Physics (3rd edition) by Kane and Sternheim, published by Wiley.

General Physics with Bio-science essays (2nd edition) by Marion and Hornyak

Physics (with health science applications) by Urone

Physics of the Body (2nd edition) by Cameron, Skofronick and Grant (published by

Medical Physics Publishing, 1999)

(Those highlighted in red are particularly good)

There are a range of general textbooks available covering the basic topics in Physics, however they are insufficient on their own. Examples of these are;

Physics (4th Edition) by Cutnall and Johnson. Published by Wiley.

Fundamentals of Physics (3rd edition) by Halliday and Resnick. Published by

For some of the topics covered in the Physics courses (eye, ear, blood flow, lungs etc) you will need to refer to a basic Physiology textbook (familiarise yourselves with these in the library).