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JAMA. 1999;282(7):695. doi:10.1001/jama.282.7.695.
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Alternative and Complementary MedicineAlternative Health Care: Medicine, Miracle, or Mirage?

by Michael S. Goldstein, 278 pp, $59.50, ISBN 1-56639-677-8, paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-56639-678-6, Philadelphia, Pa, Temple University Press, 1999.
The Cross Name Index to Medicinal Plants
by Anthony R. Torkelson (Plants in Indian Medicine A-Z, vol 4), 547 pp, $350, ISBN 0-8493-1085-7, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press, 1999.
AnesthesiologyAnesthesia and Transplantation
edited by Michael D. Sharpe and Adrian W. Gelb, 512 pp, with illus, $125, ISBN 0-7506-9664-8, Woburn, Mass, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.
Essentials of Pain Medicine and Regional Anesthesia
edited by Honorio T. Benzon, Srinivasa N. Raja, David Borsook, Robert E. Molloy, and Gary Strichartz, 483 pp, with illus, paper, $69, ISBN 0-443-06509-8, New York, NY, Churchill Livingstone, 1999.
CancerBreast Cancer
edited by Daniel F. Roses, 688 pp, with illus, $160, ISBN 0-443-05581-5, New York, NY, Churchill Livingstone, 1999.
Cancer and the Search for Selective Biochemical Inhibitors
by E. J. Hoffman, 560 pp, with illus, $139, ISBN 0-8493-9118-0, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press, 1999.
Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children
76 pp, with illus, paper, $16.20, Sw.fr. 18, ISBN 92-4-154512-7, Geneva, Switzerland, World Health Organization, 1998.
Microbes and Malignancy: Infection as a Cause of Human Cancers
edited by Julie Parsonnet, 465 pp, with illus, $79.95, ISBN 0-19-510401-3, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Critical CareOxford Textbook of Critical Care
edited by Andrew R. Webb, Marc J. Shapiro, Mervyn Singer, and Peter M. Suter, 1421 pp, with illus, $198.50, ISBN 0-19-262737-6, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1999.
EndocrinologyExperimental Models of Diabetes
edited by John H. McNeill, 418 pp, with illus, $149.95, ISBN 0-8493-1667-7, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press, 1999.
EthicsBeyond Regulations: Ethics in Human Subjects Research
edited by Nancy M. P. King, Gail E. Henderson, and Jane Stein (Studies in Social Medicine), 279 pp, with illus, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2468-2, paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4770-4, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
The Definition of Death: Contemporary Controversies
edited by Stuart J. Youngner, Robert M. Arnold, and Renie Schapiro, 346 pp, $54, ISBN 0-8018-5985-9, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Medicine and the Marketplace: The Moral Dimensions of Managed Care
by Kenman L. Wong, 219 pp, with illus, $32, ISBN 0-268-01440-X, Notre Dame, Ind, University of Notre Dame Press, 1998.
GeriatricsA Means to an End: The Biological Basis of Aging and Death
by William R. Clark, 234 pp, with illus, $27.50, ISBN 0-19-512593-2, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1999.
HematologyHemostasis and Thrombosis
by Thomas G. DeLoughery (Vademecum), 212 pp, with illus, spiral-bound, $45, ISBN 1-57059-558-5, Austin, Tex, Landes Bioscience, 1999.
MiscellaneousBlood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster
edited by Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer, 375 pp, ISBN 0-19-512929-6, paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-19-513160-6, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Drowning: New Perspectives on Intervention and Prevention
edited by John R. Fletemeyer and Samuel J. Freas (symposium, Ft Lauderdale, Fla, May 1996), 314 pp, with illus, $59.95, ISBN 1-57444-223-6, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press, 1999.
Living With Grief at Work: A Practical Guide for the Workplace
by Kenneth J. Doka, 8 pp pamphlet, Washington, DC, Hospice Foundation of America, 1999.
NeurologyBrain Tumors
by Harry S. Greenberg, William F. Chandler, and Howard M. Sandler (Contemporary Neurology Series, No. 54), 350 pp, with illus, $110, ISBN 0-19-512958-X, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Essentials of Clinical Epilepsy
by Alan H. Guberman and J. Bruni, 2nd ed, 207 pp, with illus, paper, $45, ISBN 0-7506-7109-2, Woburn, Mass, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.
Neurologic Complications in Organ Transplant Recipients
edited by Eelco F. M. Wijdicks (Blue Books of Practical Neurology, vol 21), 248 pp, with illus, $95, ISBN 0-7506-7066-5, Woburn, Mass, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.
The Paradox of Sleep: The Story of Dreaming
by Michel Jouvet, translated by Laurence Garey, 196 pp, with illus, $25, ISBN 0-262-10080-0, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 1999.
Sleep Medicine
by Michael S. Aldrich (Contemporary Neurology Series, No. 53), 382 pp, with illus, $110, ISBN 0-19-512957-1, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Whiplash and Related Headaches
by Bernard Swerdlow, 1083 pp, with illus, $89.95, ISBN 1-57444-232-5, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press, 1999.
OphthalmologyDiabetes Mellitus, Part 4A
by Donald W. Novey and Kirk H. Packo (Effective Retinal Diagnosis: The Easy Way to Learn Ophthalmoscopy), 1 video tape, 18 min, 9 sec, $295, Chicago, Ill, Medical Media Systems, 1998.
Diabetes Mellitus, Part 4B
by Donald W. Novey and Kirk H. Packo (Effective Retinal Diagnosis: The Easy Way to Learn Ophthalmoscopy), one video tape, 20 min, 19 sec, $295, Chicago, Ill, Medical Media Systems, 1998.
Nutritional and Environmental Influences on the Eye
edited by Allen Taylor (CRC Series in Modern Nutrition), 285 pp, with illus, $129.95, ISBN 0-8493-8565-2, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press, 1999.
PathologyColor Atlas of Normal Cytology
by Arlene J. Herzberg, Dominic S. Raso, and Jan F. Silverman, 490 pp, with illus, $245, ISBN 0-443-07547-6, New York, NY, Churchill Livingstone, 1999.
Tumors of the Salivary Glands
by Gary L. Ellis and Paul L. Auclair (Atlas of Tumor Pathology, 3rd Series), Electronic Fascicle version 2.0, one CD-ROM, requirements: MacIntosh: System 7.1, or later, 4MB RAM, 8MB RAM with System 7.5×, 1MB free hard drive space; Windows: 3.1× or 95, 4MB RAM, 8MB RAM with Windows 95, 1MB free hard drive space, documentation 31 pp user's guide, $65, ISBN 1-881041-41-7, Washington, DC, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1998.
PsychiatryIn the Long Run . . . Longitudinal Studies of Psychopathology in Children
formulated by the Committee on Child Psychiatry (Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, Report No. 143), 183 pp, paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-87318-211-1, Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press, 1999.
Medicating Schizophrenia: A History
by Sheldon Gelman, 288 pp, $52, ISBN 0-8135-2642-6, paper, $23, ISBN 0-8135-2643-4, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Public HealthInfections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
by Paul Farmer, 344 pp, $29.95, ISBN 0-520-21544-3, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998.
A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled
by Deborah Wallace and Rodrick Wallace, 222 pp, with illus, $30, ISBN 1-85984-858-3, New York, NY, Verso/Association for Health Services Research (202-223-2477), 1998.
ReferenceMedical Abbreviations: 14,000 Conveniences at the Expense of Communications and Safety
by Neil M. Davis, 9th ed, 380 pp, paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-931431-09-3, Huntingdon Valley, Pa, Neil M. Davis Associates, 1999.
Sports-ExerciseSports and Exercise Nutrition
by William D. McArdle, Frank I. Katch, and Victor L. Katch, 749 pp, with illus, $49.95, ISBN 0-683-30449-6, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999.
SurgeryAdvanced Therapy in Cardiac Surgery
by Kenneth L. Franco and Edward D. Verrier, 543 pp, with illus, includes CD-ROM, $110, ISBN 1-55009-052-6, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, BC Decker, 1999.
Operative Ultrasound for Surgeons, vol 1
by Patrice Lamoureux, one CD-ROM, requirements: MAC 68040 or PPC processor, System 7.1 or higher, 16MB RAM, QuickTime 2.5; Pentium PC with Windows 95, 16MB RAM, QuickTime 2.1.2 for Windows, documentation 2 pp user's guide, $95, ISBN 1-896957-17-X, Montréal, Québec, Canada, SSB Multimedia Health Sciences, 1999.
Pediatric Neurosurgery: Theoretical Principles-Art of Surgical Techniques
by Anthony J. Raimondi, chapter on Epilepsy by F. Cardinale, 2nd ed, 630 pp, with illus, $398, ISBN 3-540-62777-4, New York, NY, Springer, 1998.

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