Highlights from the Hopwood Library Book Collection
The Hopwood Library, UPMC Shadyside: A Health Resource Center for Patients and Families, provides resources based on the philosophy that patients will live healthier lives when they have access to current and accurate medical information.
Books for the Hopwood Library are carefully selected and reviewed by Michelle Burda, HSLS consumer health librarian. As you browse the shelves you will find more than 1000 books on diseases and their treatments, parenting, prevention and wellness, nutrition, and cookbooks, as well as some of the latest best sellers in health and medicine.
The titles below are a sample of books in the Hopwood Library collection, located in the UPMC Shadyside Medical Building. You can search the complete HSLS consumer health information collection for books, pamphlets, videos and audiotapes by using the online catalog PITTCat for the Consumer <kittycat.hsls.pitt.edu>, or you may use the quick link from the HSLS Consumer Health Information page <www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/chi/>. Questions? Contact Michelle Burda, consumer health librarian at 412-623-2420, or burdaml@msx.upmc.edu.
Mary Mercedes, Sister.
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001.
Hopwood Collection - UPMC Shadyside: BJ1533 C9 M34 2001
Dawood, Richard.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Hopwood Collection - UPMC Shadyside: RA783.5 T68 2002
Fox, Michael J.
New York : Hyperion, 2002.
Author recounts how he is dealing with Parkinson’s disease.
Hopwood Collection - UPMC Shadyside: PN2308 F69 A3 2002
May, Jeffery C.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Hopwood Collection - UPMC Shadyside: RC585 M29 2001
McCubbery, Dorie.
New York : HarperResource, 2002.
Hopwood Collection - UPMC Shadyside: RM222.2 M4338 2002
Brott, Armin A.
New York : Abbeville Press, 1998.
Hopwood Collection - UPMC Shadyside: HQ774.5 B757 1998
American Academy of Pediatrics and Bashe, Philip.
New York : Bantam Books, 2003.
Hopwood Collection - UPMC Shadyside: HQ799.15 C373 2003
Restak, Richard M.
Washington, DC : Joseph Henry Press, 2001.
Through the use of interviews, case studies and clinical research the author, a neuro-psychiatrist, explains the brain’s journey over the course of a lifetime.
Hopwood Collection - UPMC Shadyside: QP376 R4729 2001
Preston, Richard.
New York : Random House, 2002.
Author of “The Hot Zone.” An account of the threat of smallpox reentering our world in a more virulent genetically altered form.
Hopwood Collection - UPMC Shadyside: RA644 S6P74 2002
Kelly, Emily.
New York : Lorenz Books, 2000.
Hopwood Collection - UPMC Shadyside: qRA781 K45 2000
New York : DK Pub., 2002.
Peter Falloon-Goodhew.
Hopwood Collection - UPMC Shadyside: RA781.7 F35 2002
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli.
Hopwood Collection - UPMC Shadyside: RA781.7 D56 2002
Ruth Gilmore.
Hopwood Collection - UPMC Shadyside: RA781.7 G55 2002
Peter Falloon-Goodhew.
Hopwood Collection - UPMC Shadyside: RA781.7 F35 2002
--Michelle Burda
