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JAMA. 1999;282(24):2367-2368. doi:10.1001/jama.282.24.2367.
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Alternative and Complementary MedicineCurrent Review of Complementary Medicine

edited by Marc S. Micozzi, 167 pp, with illus, $49.95, ISBN 1-57340-129-3, Philadelphia, Pa, Current Medicine, 1999.
The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
by Shigehisa Kuriyama, 340 pp, with illus, $29.50, ISBN 0-942299-88-4, New York, NY, Zone Books, 1999.
AnatomyOn the Fabric of the Human Body: Book 2, The Ligaments and Muscles
by Andreas Vesalius, translated by William Frank Richardson in collaboration with John Burd Carman (Norman Orthopedic Series, No. 2; Norman Anatomy Series, No. 2; Norman Landmarks Series, No. 2), 490 pp, with illus, includes free 60 cm × 90 cm poster, $250, ISBN 0-930405-75-7, San Francisco, Calif, Norman Publishing, 1999 (Book 1 reviewed in JAMA October 20, 1999).
Grant's Atlas of Anatomy
by Anne M. R. Agur and Ming J. Lee, 10th ed, 760 pp, with illus, paper, $59.95, ISBN 0-683-30264-7, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999.
Clinical Laboratory MedicineDistrict Laboratory Practice in Tropical Countries, Part 1
by Monica Cheesbrough, 454 pp, with illus, $64.95, ISBN 0-521-66547-7, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Critical Care MedicineManagement of the Difficult Airway
edited by Alan Jon Smally, one CD-ROM, $150, Hartford, Conn, Pyrtek Learning Resource Center, Hartford Hospital, 1999.
DermatologyOccupational Skin Disease
edited by Robert M. Adams, 3rd ed, 792 pp, with illus, $175, ISBN 0-7216-7037-7, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders Co, 1999.
EducationMedical School Admissions: The Insider's Guide
by John A. Zebala, Daniel B. Jones, and Stephanie B. Jones, 5th ed, 192 pp, paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-914457-94-2, Memphis, Tenn, Mustang Publishing, 1999.
GeneticsAnalysis of Human Genetic Linkage
by Jurg Ott, 3rd ed, 382 pp, with illus, $55, ISBN 0-8018-6140-3, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Genetic Disorders of Human Sexual Development
by Leonard Pinsky, Robert P. Erickson, and R. Neil Schimke (Oxford Monographs on Medical Genetics, No. 38), 410 pp, with illus, $85, ISBN 0-19-510907-4, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Health SystemsHippocrates Assailed: The American Health Delivery System
by Gerhard Falk, 380 pp, $64, ISBN 0-7618-1433-7, paper, $44.50, ISBN 0-7618-1434-5, Lanham, Md, University Press of America, 1999.
Management Principles for Health Professionals
by Joan Gratto Liebler and Charles R. McConnell, 3rd ed, 524 pp, with illus, paper, $49, ISBN 0-8342-1245-5, Gaithersburg, Md, Aspen Publishers, 1999.
Medicare: Issues in Political Economy
by Ronald J. Vogel, 252 pp, with illus, $49.50, ISBN 0-472-11060-8, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1999.
Policy and Health: Implications for Development in Asia
by John W. Peabody, M. Omar Rahman, Paul J. Gertler, et al (Rand Studies in Policy Analysis), 441 pp, with illus, $44.95, ISBN 0-521-66164-1, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
HIVThe Medical Management of AIDS
edited by Merle A. Sande and Paul A. Volberding, 6th ed, 636 pp, with illus, $72, ISBN 0-7216-8102-6, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders Co, 1999.
Infectious DiseaseCurrent Clinical Topics in Infectious Diseases 19
edited by Jack S. Remington and Morton N. Swartz, 336 pp, with illus, $79.95, ISBN 0-632-04402-0, Malden, Mass, Blackwell Science, 1999.
Microbiology in Action
by J. Heritage, E. G. V. Evans, and R. A. Killington (Studies in Biology), 290 pp, with illus, $54.95, ISBN 0-521-62111-9, paper, $20.95, ISBN 0-521-62912-8, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens, and Practice, vols 1 & 2
edited by Richard L. Guerrant, David H. Walker, and Peter F. Weller, 1704 pp, with illus, $295, ISBN 0-443-07908-0, Philadelphia, Pa, Churchill Livingstone, 1999.
LawGenetics and Criminality: The Potential Misuse of Scientific Information in Court
edited by Jeffrey R. Botkin, William M. McMahon, and Leslie Pickering Francis (The Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences), 277 pp, with illus, $39.95, ISBN 1-55798-580-4, Washington, DC, American Psychological Association, 1999.
MedicineDiabetes Management: Clinical Pathways, Guidelines, and Patient Education
by Health and Administration Development Group (Aspen Chronic Disease Management Series), 306 pp, with illus, paper, $69, ISBN 0-8342-1703-1, $221 for 4-book series (also includes hypertension, asthma, and coronary artery disease volumes), Gaithersburg, Md, Aspen Publishers, 1999.
Hypertension Management: Clinical Pathways, Guidelines, and Patient Education
by Health and Administration Development Group (Aspen Chronic Disease Management Series), 212 pp, with illus, paper, $69, ISBN 0-8342-1702-3, $221 for 4-book series (also includes diabetes, asthma, and coronary artery disease volumes), Gaithersburg, Md, Aspen Publishers, 1999.
NeurologyBrain Attack: The Clinical Handbook
by Vladimir Hachinski, 95 pp, with illus, paper, $39.95 CAN, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Meducom International, meducom@sympatico.ca, 1999.
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, 328 pp, with illus, $27, ISBN 0-688-15247-3, paper, $15, ISBN 0-688-17217-2, New York, NY, Quill/William Morrow, 1998.
NutritionThomas Jefferson University Hospital Nutrition Manual
by Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, 300+pp, with illus, 3-ring loose leaf binder, $196, ISBN 0-8342-0335-9, Gaithersburg, Md, Aspen Publishers, 1993.
OrthopedicsFinger Bone and Joint Injuries
edited by Peter Brüser and Alain Gilbert, 383 pp, with illus, $115, ISBN 1-85317-690-7, London, England, Martin Dunitz, Malden, Mass, Blackwell Science, 1999.
PainOpioid Sensitivity of Chronic Noncancer Pain
edited by Eija Kalso, Henry J. McQuay, and Zsuzsanna Wiesenfeld-Hallin (Progress in Pain Research and Management, vol 14), 397 pp, with illus, $68, $44.20 IASP members, ISBN 0-931092-28-0, Seattle, Wash, International Association for the Study of Pain Press, 1999.
Public HealthHandbook of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
edited by James M. Raczynski and Ralph J. DiClemente (Plenum Series in Behavioral Psychophysiology and Medicine), 669 pp, with illus, $125, ISBN 0-306-46140-4, New York, NY, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.
Pulmonology-RespirologyAsthma Management: Clinical Pathways, Guidelines, and Patient Education
by Health and Administration Development Group (Aspen Chronic Disease Management Series), 229 pp, with illus, paper, $69, $221 for 4-book series (also includes hypertension, diabetes, and coronary artery disease volumes), ISBN 0-8342-1705-8, Gaithersburg, Md, Aspen Publishers, 1999.
Fraser and Paré's Diagnosis of Diseases of the Chest, vols 1-4
by R. S. Fraser, Neil Colman, Nestor L. Müller, and P. D. Paré, 4th ed, 3251 pp, with illus, $395, ISBN 0-7216-6194-7, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders Co, 1999.
Medical Management of Pulmonary Diseases
edited by Gerald S. Davis (Clinical Guides to Medical Management), 795 pp, with illus, $225, ISBN 0-8247-6002-6, New York, NY, Marcel Dekker, 1999.
Respiratory Physiology: The Essentials
by John B. West, 6th ed, 171 pp, with illus, paper, $30, ISBN 0-683-30734-7, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
ReferenceBlack's Medical Dictionary
edited by Gordon Macpherson, 39th ed, 630 pp, with illus, $39.95, ISBN 1-56833-129-0, Lanham, Md, Madison Books, 1999.
Comprehensive Medical Thesaurus With Concise Etymological Analysis: Workbook for Conquering Medical English
by John M. Ohno, 350 pp, paper, $29.95, ISBN 1-58244-012-3, Danbury, Conn, Rutledge Books, 1999.
MEDLINE: A Guide to Effective Searching
by Brian S. Katcher, 149 pp, $45, ISBN 0-9673445-9-X, paper, $29, ISBN 0-9673445-0-6, San Francisco, Calif, Ashbury Press, 1999.
Sex and GenderIntersex in the Age of Ethics
edited by Alice Domurat Dreger (Ethics in Clinical Medicine Series), 227 pp, with illus, $45, ISBN 1-55572-125-7, paper, $19.95, ISBN 1-55572-100-1, Hagerstown, Md, University Publishing Group, 1999 (articles reprinted from Journal of Clinical Ethics and Chrysalis).

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