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Cohen, Daniel. The Last 100 Years: Medicine. New York: M. Evans, 1981.

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Cook, Chris, and David Waller, eds. The Longman Handbook of Modern American History, 1763–1996. Harlow, NY: Longman, 1998.

Cunningham, Robert III, and Robert Cunningham Jr. The Blues: A History of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997.

Duden, Jane. 1940s. New York: Crestwood House, 1989.

Feinstein, Stephen. The 1940s From World War II to Jackie Robinson. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2000.

Garza, Hedda. Women in Medicine. New York: Franklin Watts, 1994.

Gordon, Karen. Selman Waksman and the Discovery of Streptomycin. Bear, DE: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2002.

Hills, Ken. 1940s. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1992.

Landau, Elaine. Tuberculosis. New York: Franklin Watts, 1995.

McGrew, Roderick E. Encyclopedia of Medical History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985.

Miller, Brandon Marie. Just What the Doctor Ordered: The History of American Medicine. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications, 1997.

Lyons, Albert S. Medicine: An Illustrated History. New York: Abrams, 1978.

Otfinoski, Steven. Alexander Fleming: Conquering Disease with Penicillin. New York: Facts on File, 1992.

Parker, Steve. Medical Advances. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1998.

Press, Petra. A Multicultural Portrait of Learning in America. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1994.

Royston, Angela. 100 Greatest Medical Discoveries. Danbury, CT: Grolier Educational, 1997.

Scheehan, Angela, ed. The Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia of Health. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1995.

Senior, Kathryn. Medicine: Doctors, Demons, and Drugs. New York: Franklin Watts, 1993.

Silverstein, Alvin, et al. Polio. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2001.

Stille, Darlene R. Extraordinary Women of Medicine. New York: Children's Press, 1997.

Uschan, Michael V. The 1940s. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1999.

Wood, Tim, and R.J. Unstead. The 1940s. New York: Franklin Watts, 1990.

Yount, Lisa. History of Medicine. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 2001.

WEB SITES

American Red Cross History: 1940–1959. [Online] http://www.redcross.org/museum/19401959.html (accessed March 2002).

Blue Cross and Blue Shield History. [Online] http://www.bcbs.com/whoweare/history.html (accessed March 2002).