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Recommended Books for BASIC SCIENCE


1. Anatomy

Gross Anatomy

• Human Anatomy Volume: 0, 1, 2, 3 - B. D. Chaurasiya
• Clinical Neuroanatomy - Richard S Snell*
• Clinical Anatomy - Richard S Snell*
• Essential Clinically Anatomy: Keith L Moore

Embryology

• A Text Book of Embryology - Inderbir Singh
• Medical Embryology - Jan Langman*

Histology

• A Textbook of Histoloy - Inderbir Singh
• diFiore's Atlas of Histology*

Dissection

• Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy Vol. 1, 2, 3
• Grant's Atlas of Anatomy*
• McMinn's Color Atlas of Human Anatomy

2. Biochemistry

• A Textbook of Biochemistry - U Satyanarayan
• Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews Biochemistry*
• Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry

3. Physiology

• Textbook of Physiology - Mahapatra
• Review of Medical Physiology - William F. Ganong*
• Text book of Medical Physiology - A. C. Guyton
• Text book of Medical Physiology by Sembulingam

4. Microbiology

Microbiology

• A Textbook of Microbiology - Chakrobarty
• Jawetz, Melnick & Adelberg's Medical Microbiology
• A Textbook of Microbiology - Anant Narayanan & Panicker

Parasitology

• Textbook of Parasitology - KD Chatterjee

5. Pathology

• Text Book of Pathology - Harsh Mohan
• Robbin's Pathological Basis of Disease*

6. Pharmacology

• Essentials of Pharmacology - K.D. Tripathi
• Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology*
• Basic & Clinical Pharmacology - B. G. Katzung

7. Community Medicine

Textbook

• Park's Text Book of Preventive and Social Medicine - Park & Park

Statistics

• Biostatistics - B K Mahajan*

Please read this information before buying:

• Book names with bold are bought and read by almost all the students. You don't have to buy all the books that are listed in a subject, buy ony of them and then you can decide after a month or so whether you need more on that subject or not.
• Book names with asteric * is bought by most of the students infact its good to buy if you want to excell. Book published in India will help you to get through your exam but to have sound knowledge you got to read books by foreign writers.
• Before buing any books go to the library and take a look, which ever book u feel easy reading buy that and keep other book as reference.
• Consult with the immediate senior about the books.
• Always ask for latest edition.
• Links have been added to show you its cover page which has been taken from amazon if you are in Nepal enquire local Medical Book Shops.
• Find out if you could get interactive CDs for above subjects, usually they are very helpful. e.g. Interactive CD of Grants Atlas, diFiore's Atlas of Histology, Netter's Atlas, ADAM interactive Anatomy etc.