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JAMA. 1999;281(9):849-850. doi:10.1001/jama.281.9.849.
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Alcohol and Drug DependenceThe Consequences of Alcoholism—Medical, Neuropsychiatric, Economic, Cross-Cultural

edited by Marc Galanter (Recent Developments in Alcoholism, vol 14), 499 pp, with illus, $95, ISBN 0-306-45747-4, New York, NY, Plenum Press, 1998.
Substance Abuse Disorders in Clinical Practice
by Edward C. Senay, 2nd ed, 228 pp, $37, ISBN 0-393-70291-X, New York, NY, WW Norton & Co Inc, 1998.
Biography, MemoirLouis Pasteur
by Patrice Debré, translated by Elborg Forster, 552 pp, with illus, $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5808-9, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Fifty Years A Country Doctor
by Hull Cook, 203 pp, paper, $12, ISBN 0-8032-6389-9, Lincoln, Neb, University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
CancerCurrent Cancer Therapeutics
edited by John M. Kirkwood, Michael T. Lotze, and Joyce M. Yasko, 3rd ed, 462 pp, with illus, paper, $65, ISSN 1074-2816, ISBN 0-443-06527-6, Philadelphia, Pa, Churchill Livingstone, Philadelphia, Pa, Current Medicine, 1998.
Understanding and Assisting Low-Income Women With Cancer
by Emma Jean Tedder, 94 pp, $24.95, ISBN 0-7890-0426-7, paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-7890-0427-5, New York, NY, Haworth Press, 1998.
EthicsAccess to Experimental Drugs in Terminal Illness: Ethical Issues
by Udo Schüklenk, 228 pp, $49.95, ISBN 0-7890-0563-8, New York, NY, Pharmaceutical Products Press/Haworth Press, 1998.
GastroenterologyInflammatory Bowel Disease: A Guide for Patients and Their Families
edited by Stanley H. Stein and Richard P. Rood, an official publication of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, 2nd ed, 235 pp, with illus, paper, $22, ISBN 0-397-51771-8, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott-Raven, 1999.
Health SystemsThe Art of Balance in Health Policy: Maintaining Japan's Low-Cost, Egalitarian System
by John Creighton Campbell and Naoki Ikegami, 227 pp, $54.95, ISBN 0-521-57122-7, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
From Cradle to Grave: Fifty Years of the NHS
by Geoffrey Rivett, 506 pp, paper, L25, ISBN 1-85717-148-9, King's Fund Publishing, 11-13 Cavendish Square, London, W1M 0AN, United Kingdom, http://www.kingsfund.org.uk, web@kehf.org.uk; 1998.
Frontiers in Health Policy Research 1
edited by Alan M. Garber, 180 pp, with illus, $35, ISBN 0-262-07187-8, paper, $15, ISBN 0-262-57120-X, ISSN 1096-231X, Cambridge, Mass, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 1998.
Spinal Cord Injury: An Analysis of Medical and Social Costs
by Monroe Berkowitz, Paul K. O'Leary, Douglas L. Kruse, and Carol Harvey, 188 pp, with illus, $89.95, ISBN 1-888799-17-X, New York, NY, Demos Medical Publishing, 1998.
HematologyWintrobe's Clinical Hematology, vols 1 & 2
edited by G. Richard Lee, John Foerster, John Lukens, Frixos Paraskevas, John P. Greer, and George M. Rodgers, 10th ed, 2929 pp, with illus, $155, ISBN 0683-18242-0, Baltimore, Md, Williams & Wilkins, 1999.
HIVThe AmFAR AIDS Handbook: The Complete Guide to Understanding HIV and AIDS
by Darrell E. Ward, 360 pp, with illus, $17.50, ISBN 0-393-31636-X, New York, NY, WW Norton & Co Inc, 1998.
HIV/AIDS: Internet Information Sources and Resources
edited by Jeffrey T. Huber (Health Care on the Internet, vol 2, Nos. 2/3 1998), 165 pp, with illus, $34.95, ISBN 0-7890-0544-1, paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-56023-117-3, New York, NY, Harrington Park Press/Haworth Press, 1998.
New International Directions in HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men
edited by Michael T. Wright, B. R. Simon Rosser, and Onno de Zwart (Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, vol 10, Nos. 3/4 1998), 167 pp, with illus, $49.95, ISBN 0-7890-0538-7, paper, $22.95, ISBN 1-56023-116-5, New York, NY, Harrington Park Press/Haworth Press, 1998.
ImagingShoulder Magnetic Resonance Imaging
edited by Lynne S. Steinbach, Charles G. Peterfy, Phillip F. J. Tirman, and John F. Feller, illustrated by Gilbert M. Gardner, 259 pp, with illus, $160, ISBN 0-397-51468-9, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott-Raven, 1998.
MedicineLipids and Syndromes of Insulin Resistance: From Molecular Biology to Clinical Medicine
edited by I. Klimes, S. M. Haffner, E. Seböková, B. V. Howard, and L. H. Storlien (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol 827; symposium, Smolenice Castle, Slovak Republic, August-September 1996), 582 pp, with illus, $160, ISBN 1-57331-070-0, soft paper, ISBN 1-57331-071-9, New York, NY, New York Academy of Sciences, ISSN 0077-8923, 1997.
Sleep Medicine Pearls
by Richard B. Berry (The Pearls Series), 276 pp, with illus, paper, $39, ISBN 1-56053-273-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Hanley & Belfus, 1999.
MiscellaneousThe Anatomist: A Novel
by Federico Andahazi, translated from the Spanish by Alberto Manguel, 215 pp, $22.95, ISBN 0-385-49132-8, New York, NY, Doubleday, 1998 (a novel based on fact, concerning female sexuality, set in Renaissance Italy).
Medical Illustration Source Book
edited by William B. Westwood, 11th ed, 184 pp, with illus, spiral-bound, $50, ISBN 1-883486-06-8, Atlanta, Ga, Association of Medical Illustrators, 1998.
The Molecules Within Us: Our Body in Health and Disease
by Charles A. Pasternak, 336 pp, with illus, $28.95, ISBN 0-306-45987-6, New York, NY, Plenum Trade, 1998.
Stuttering and Related Disorders of Fluency
by Richard F. Curlee, 2nd ed, 307 pp, with illus, $45, ISBN 0-86577-764-0, New York, NY, Thieme, 1999.
What Am I Going to Do With Myself When I Die?
by John D. Canine, 173 pp, with illus, paper, $34.95, ISBN 0-8385-9710-6, Stamford, Conn, Appleton & Lange, 1999.
NeurologyClinical Companion to The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurological Disease, 2nd ed
edited by Roger N. Rosenberg, Stanley B. Prusiner, Salvatore DiMauro, and Robert L. Barchi, 318 pp, with illus, paper, $45, ISBN 0-7506-7043-6, Woburn, Mass, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998 (text reviewed in JAMA August 20, 1997).
The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Stroke: Cognitive, Behavioral, and Emotional Disorders Following Vascular Brain Injury
by Robert G. Robinson, 491 pp, with illus, $95, ISBN 0-521-44234-6, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Obstetrics-GynecologySynopsis of Gynecologic Oncology
by C. Paul Morrow and John P. Curtin, 5th ed, 584 pp, with illus, $120, ISBN 0-443-07509-3, New York, NY, Churchill Livingstone, 1998.
Occupational HealthAdvances in the Prevention of Occupational Respiratory Diseases
edited by Keizo Chiyotani, Yutaka Hosoda, and Yoshiharu Aizawa (International Congress Series No. 1153; symposium, Kyoto, Japan, October 1997), 1236 pp, with illus, $296, ISBN 0-444-82791-9, New York, NY, Elsevier, 1998.
PediatricsChanging Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships
by Ruth Bell and other co-authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves and Ourselves and Our Children, together with members of the Teen Book Project, 3rd ed, 411 pp, with illus, paper, $23, ISBN 0-8129-2990-X, New York, NY, Times Books/Random House, 1998.
Emergency Pediatrics: A Guide to Ambulatory Care
edited by Roger M. Barkin and Peter Rosen, 5th ed, 952 pp, with illus, paper, $69.95, ISBN 0-323-00326-5, St Louis, Mo, Mosby, 1999.
PerinatologyAsphyxia and Fetal Brain Damage
edited by Dev Maulik, 372 pp, with illus, $110, ISBN 0-471-18427-6, New York, NY, Wiley-Liss, 1998.
Pharmacology-TherapeuticsMedicinal Herbal Therapy: A Pharmacist's Viewpoint
by Steven G. Ottariano, 192 pp, with illus, paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-9637077-6-0, Portsmouth, NH, Nicolin Fields Publishing, Chambersburg, Pa, Alan C. Hood & Co, 1999.
Primary CareMosby's 1999 Family Practice Sourcebook
by Kenneth G. Marshall, 394 pp, paper, $49.95, ISBN 0-8151-2785-5, St Louis, Mo, Mosby, 1999.
Pulmonology-RespirologyOne Minute Asthma: What You Need to Know
by Thomas F. Plaut, 4th ed, 56 pp, with illus, paper, $5, ISBN 0-914625-20-9, Amherst, Mass, Pedipress, 1998.
RehabilitationWheelchair Selection and Configuration
by Rory A. Cooper, 410 pp, with illus, paper, $34.95, ISBN 1-888799-18-8, New York, NY, Demos Medical Publishing, 1998.
RheumatologyThe New Sjogren's Syndrome Handbook
edited by Steven Carsons and Elaine K. Harris, 230 pp, with illus, $25, ISBN 0-19-511724-7, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1998.
SurgeryTraumatic Brain Injury
edited by Donald W. Marion, 302 pp, with illus, $99, ISBN 0-86577-727-6, New York, NY, Thieme, 1999.
UrologyRecent Advances in Urology
edited by Roger S. Kirby and Michael P. O'Leary, 184 pp, with illus, paper, $75, ISBN 0-443-05765-6, Philadelphia, Pa, Churchill Livingstone, 1998.

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