本书是关于介绍“医学院校硕士研究生英语读与写”的教学用书，书中每一单元分别包括导入、正文A、词汇、注释、练习、正文B、及课后扩展阅读所需的网站信息等。为了便于教师和学生使用该教材，每单元的词汇部分根据其在原文中出现的段落作了上标。

Unit 1

 Text A The Hippocratic Oath

 Text B 12 Principles from Christoph Wilhelm von Hufeland

Unit 2

 Text A Why Should Human Beings Be Moral?

 Text B Why Should I Be Moral?（Revised）

Unit 3

 Text A Patients Have Rights, but Doctors Have Rights, Too

 Text B Does the Doctor-Patient Relationship Mean More to Doctors than Patients?

Unit 4

 Text A An Assessment of Rights Theory in a Specific health Care Con Text

 Text B How to Improve Communication Between Doctors and Patients

Unit 5

 Text A Killing Trust Between Doctors and Patients

 Text B Bioterrorism: Red Scare for a New Millennum

Unit 6

 Text A Will He Choose to Save Your Life?

 Text B Biogterrosism as a Public Health Threat

Unit 7

 Text A Altruism and Payment in Blood Donation

 Text B Blood Safety and Donation: A Global View

Unit 8

 Text A Cognitive Changes Associated with Aging

 Text B Personality Changes Associated with Aging

Unit 9

 Text A Organ Transplantation: Ethical Dilemmas and Policy Choices

 Text B Five Organ Procurement Policies and Proposals: A Comparison (Continued)

Unit 10

 Text A Education Against Gender-Based Violence

 Text B Ending Widespread Violence Against Women

Unit 11

 Text A Someone Who Believed in Them Helped Them to Recover

 Text B What If Everyone Were a Donor?

Unit 12

 Text A A NaturalDisaster and a Human Tragedy

 Text B Natural Disaster, but Avoidable Tragedy

Unit 13

 Text A Food Additives

 Text B Additional Information about Additives(Continued)

Unit 14

 Text A Environmenatl Risks to Childeren's Health in the Home

 Text B The WHO Approach to Housing and Health