学术英语 医学 Unit 3

学术英语 医学Academic English for Medicine

Unit 3Prevention Diseases and Treatment ofDespite the progress in medicine, many diseases are still untreatable and incurable. It has been generally agreed that prevention is more costeffective than the treatment of diseases. Here come some fundamental questions: Which play a more important role in causing human diseases, genes or environmental factors? Why do people with good interpersonal relationships live healthier and longer? What are the major steps in developing a new drug? In this unit, we will probably find the answers to these questions.

Unit 3

Prevention and Treatment of Diseases

Listening

Note-taking Forms Suggested answers

Unit 3

Prevention and Treatment of Diseases

Listening

Note-taking Formstwo-column tables spidergram tree diagram/spidergram table table timeline flowchart headings & notes

advantages & disadvantages cause & effect classification & definition comparison & contrast facts & figures sequence of events stages of a process question & answer

Unit 3

Prevention and Treatment of Diseases

ListeningSuggested answers

Task 1

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

40,000 56,300 Measures taken 13-64 82 22 African Americans Take Charge, Take the Test gained bisexual men development of a comprehensive HIV prevention plan for the united states

Unit 3

Prevention and Treatment of Diseases

ListeningSuggested answers

Task 2

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

expand access to HIV incidence surveillance system Targeting precision compelling reasons specific information

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Prevention and Treatment of Diseases

Unit ContentsLead-in Text AText B Text C Listening Speaking Writing Get reading for Unit 9

Unit 3

Prevention and Treatment of Diseases

Lead-in Issues to be covered

The common and special means of treatment and prevention of diseases The different roles of genes and environment in causing diseases The relationship between interpersonal relationship and health The major steps in designing and developing new drugs

Unit 3

Prevention and Treatment of Diseases

Lead-in

Task: Work in pairs and discuss the causes and treatments you know of the following conditions.

Disease

Causes

Treatments

Flu

Myopia Hepatitis

Unit 3

Prevention and Treatment Task: of Diseases know

Lead-inWork in pairs and discuss the causes and treatments you of the following conditions.

Disease

Causes

Treatments

Flu

MyopiaHepatitis

rest, clear fluids, cool damp washcloth to reduce fever, warm blanket viruses to calm chills, cough medicine, antiviral medications, usually no need of antibiotics prolonged close work, corrective lenses, excessive reading refractory surgery viral (HBV, HCV, etc.), bacterial, parasitic, fungal infections antiviral medications alcohol, autoimmune, inherited

Unit 3

Prevention and Treatment of Diseases

Text ACritical reading and thinking – Topics for presentation – Knowledge of the subject matter – Useful expressions

Suggested answers

Unit 3

Prevention and Treatment of Diseases

Text ACritical reading and thinking

Topics for presentation

1. How was Terry’s life before she was diagnosed with MS?

1. loved practicing Tae Kwon Do 2. attended medical school, practiced as an internal medicine residency, became an academic general internist 3. married and got a son and a daughter

multiple sclerosis: a serious disease of the nervous system, which gradually makes a person weaker, and sometimes affects their sight or speech. The abbreviation MS is also used. 多发性硬化症

Unit 3

Prevention and Treatment of Diseases

Text ACritical reading and thinking

Topics for presentation

2. What causes MS? How does the author describe the development of his illness?

bout If you have a bout of an illness or of an unpleasant feeling, you have it for a short period. (疾病或不愉快情绪的)发作 He was recovering from a severe bout of flu. 我感到一阵紧张。 I was suffering from a bout of nerves.

relapse 这种治疗方法通常针对术后复发风险高的女性。 The treatment is usually given to women with a high risk of relapse after surgery. If a sick person relapses, their health suddenly gets worse after it had been improving.旧病复发;再次发 病 In 90 per cent of cases the patient will relapse within six months. 90%的病人在6个月内会再次发病。

Crossroads A crossroads is a place where two roads meet and cross each other.十字路口 Turn right at the first crossroads. 在第一个十字路口向右转。 If you say that something is at a crossroads, you mean that it has reached a very important stage in its development where it could go one way or another. ( 发展的)关键时刻，紧要关头 该公司显然处于发展的关键时刻。 The company was clearly at a crossroads.

Unit 3

Prevention and Treatment of Diseases

Text ACritical reading and thinking

Topics for presentation

3. What did Terry do before he self-experimented? (7-8 para.) Began his own study of the literature Reading articles about new MS drugs in animal models Reading articles about neurodegeneration of all types—dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s, and Lou Gehrig’s disease