An Annotated Bibliography of
Articles from Scientific American


Edited by

Richard D. Piccard


  1. Skeleton, Bones, and Muscles

  2. Heat, Cold, and Thermodynamics

  3. Pressure and Fluid Flow

  4. Breathing and the Lungs

  5. Hemoglobin, Myoglobin, and Oxygen Transport

  6. The Cardiovascular System

  7. Central Nervous System and Bodily Electricity and Magnetism

  8. Sound and Ultrasound

  9. The Ears and Hearing

  10. Light, the Eyes and Vision; Thermography and Lasers

  11. Ionizing Radiation, X-rays, and Nuclear Medicine

  12. Microprocessors and other computers

  13. General Interest (Cultural)

This list of articles has grown from one that was originally compiled by the Spring, 1979, class of Medical Physics at Kalamazoo College. It is indexed into 13 categories, with the articles listed in chronological order within each group. The 13 topics, listed above, were chosen with an eye to the organization of the text used in that course (Medical Physics, by Cameron and Skofronick), but with the hope that they would prove useful in other contexts. The listing is substantially complete from 1952 through 1981, and includes some more recent refrences.

If you do not have access to a library with back issues of the magazine, I would suggest that you contact the publisher:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/

In those cases where an article seemed to be of interest in more than one area, the full listing has been given only once, with cross-references in the other categories. When the on-line version is complete, the duplicate entries will be duplicated in full and other cross-references will be linked. If you detect any errors, please let me know, so that future reproductions of this list can be improved.


First hardcopy version: May 2, 1979.

First Web version: July 14, 1997.


Our thanks especially to Mitzi Schowalter for typing the original hardcopy list from handwritten notes of varying legibility. When that manuscript was scanned, the OCR software made a modest number of mistakes, most of which have been corrected.

Dick Piccard revised this file (http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~piccard/scientam/index.html) on February 12, 2002.

Please E-mail comments and suggestions to piccard@ohio.edu.