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JAMA. 2000;283(2):259-260. doi:10.1001/jama.283.2.259.
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Biography, MemoirDoctors Afield

edited by Mary G. McCrea Curnen, Howard Spiro, Deborah St James, 233 pp, with illus, $27.50, ISBN 0-300-08020-4, New Haven, Conn, Yale University Press, 1999 (accounts of doctors pursuing the arts, politics, and other endeavors).
Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire
by John Bayley, 275 pp, with illus, $22.95, ISBN 0-393-04856-x, New York, NY, WW Norton & Company, 2000. (The author's memoir of his wife's experience of Alzheimer's disease, Elegy for Iris, was reviewed in JAMA September 15, 1999).
Prozac Diary
by Lauren Slater, 215 pp, paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-14-02394-2, New York, NY, The Penguin Group, 1998.
CancerCancer Supportive Care: A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Their Families
by Ernest H. Rosenbaum and Isadora R. Rosenbaum, 449 pp, with illus, paper, $24.95, ISBN 189404211-5, Toronto, Ontario, Sommerville House Publishing, 1998.
Ensuring Quality Cancer Care
edited by Maria Hewitt and Joseph V. Simone (Institute of Medicine, National Research Council), 246 pp, $34.95, ISBN 0-309-06480-5, Washington, DC, National Academy Press, 1999.
CardiologyPeripheral Vascular Stenting for Cardiologists
edited by Richard R. Heuser, 174 pp, with illus, $99.95, ISBN 1-85317-621-4, London, England, Martin Dunitz, Malden, Mass, Blackwell Science, 1999.
Saving the Heart: The Battle to Conquer Coronary Disease
by Stephen Klaidman, 288 pp, with illus, paper, $25, ISBN 0-19-511279-2, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Textbook of Angiology
edited by John B. Chang, 1362 pp, with illus, $250, ISBN 0-387-98449-6, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag, 2000.
DermatologyAtlas of Cancer of the Skin
edited by Gunter Burg, 254 pp, with illus, $175, ISBN 0-443-05821-0, New York, NY, Churchill Livingstone, 2000.
Field Guide to Clinical Dermatology
by David H. Frankel, 240 pp, with illus, paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-7817-1730-2, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999.
Photodamaged Skin: Clinical Signs, Causes and Management
by Jean-Paul Ortonne, Ronald Marks, 149 pp, with illus, $89.95, ISBN 1-85317-345-2, London, England, Martin Dunitz, Malden, Mass, Blackwell Science, 1999.
Environmental HealthHormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis
by Sheldon Krimsky, 265 pp, $35.95, ISBN 0-8018-6279-5, Baltimore, Md, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
GeriatricsCheating Time: Science, Sex, and Aging
by Roger Gosden, 427 pp, paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-7167-3648-9, New York, NY, WH Freeman & Co, 1999.
Health SystemsThe Phantom Stethoscope: A Field Manual for Finding an Optimistic Future in Medicine
by Stehen K. Klasko and Gregory P. Shea, 259 pp, $24.95, ISBN 1-57736-144-X, Franklin, Tenn, Hillsboro Press, 1999 (science fiction-business medicine amalgam).
ImagingAtlas of Clinical Positron Emission Tomography
by M. N. Maisey, R. L. Wahl and S. Barrington, 346 pp, with illus, $125, ISBN 0-340-74098-1, London, UK, Arnold, New York, NY, Co-published in USA by Oxford University Press, 1999.
Current Topics in Radiography
edited by Audrey Patterson and Richard Price, 298 pp, with illus, paper, $35, ISBN 0-7020-2353-1, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders, 1997.
Infectious DiseaseInfectious Diseases
2nd ed, Peter Ball and James A. Gray, 125 pp, with illus, $16.95, ISBN 0-443-05883-0, New York, NY, Churchill Livingstone, 1998.
Manual of Respiratory Tract Infections
by John G. Bartlett, 2nd ed, 288 pp, paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-683-30633-2, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999.
MedicineThe Merck Manual of Medical Information: Home Edition
edited by Robert Berkow, 1620 pp, with illus, paper, $7.99, ISBN 0-671-02727-1, West Point, Pa, Merck & Co, 1997.
MiscellaneousFrench DNA: Trouble in Purgatory
by Paul Rabinow, 201 pp, $25, ISBN 0-226-70150-6, Chicago, Ill, University of Chicago Press, 1999 (case study of a failed biogenetics-business deal).
Gender, Ethnicity and Health Research
by Sana Loue, 212 pp, with illus, $49.95, ISBN 0-306-46172-2, New York, NY, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.
Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: Developmental Perspectives in Psychiatry
edited by Manuel Rodriguez Gomez, Julian R. Sampson and Vicky Holets Whittemore (Developmental Perspectives in Psychiatry), 3rd ed, 340 pp, with illus, $79.95, ISBN 0-19-512210-0, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1999.
NeurologyMedical Neurotoxicology: Occupational and Environmental Causes of Neurological Dysfunction
edited by Peter G. Balin and John B. Harris, 361 pp, with illus, $150, ISBN 0-340-59665-1, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Muscle Diseases
edited by Anthony H.V. Schapira, Robert C. Griggs, (Blue Books of Practical Neurology), 408 pp, with illus, $95, ISBN 0-7506-7085-1, Boston, Mass, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.
Neurobehavioral Genetics: Methods and Applications
edited by Byron C. Jones and Pierre Mormède, 396 pp, with illus, $99.95, ISBN 0-8493-3364-4, New York, NY, CRC Press, 1999.
Neurology of Bladder, Bowel and Sexual Dysfunction
edited by Clare J. Fowler (Blue Books of Practical Neurology), 389 pp, with illus, $95, ISBN 0-7506-9959-0, Boston, Mass, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.
Obstetrics-GynecologyCancer Obstetrics and Gynecology
edited by Edward L. Trimble and Cornelia Liu Trimble, 288 pp, with illus, $89.95, ISBN 0-7817-1410-9, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Williams, 1999.
Common Gynaecological Conditions
by Patricia C. Wilson, 308 pp, with illus, paper, $39.95, ISBN 0-632-05174-4, Malden, Mass, Blackwell Science, 1999.
Laparoscopic Surgery in Gynaecological Oncology
edited by Denis Querleu, Joel M. Childers, Daniel Dargent, 196 pp, with illus, $110, ISBN 0-86542-692-9, Malden, Mass, Blackwell Science, 1999.
PsychiatryThe Fundamentals of Clinical Neuropsychiatry
by Michael Alan Taylor, 513 pp, $59.95, ISBN 0-19-513037-5, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Neuropsychotherapy and Community Integration: Brain Illness, Emotions, and Behavior
by Tedd Judd (Critical Issues in Neuropsychology), 371 pp, $75.95, ISBN 0-306-46170-6, New York, NY, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.
Psychiatric Ethics
edited by Sidney Bloch, Paul Chodoff and Stephen A. Green, 3rd ed, 550 pp, with illus, $110, ISBN 0-19-262900-X, paper, $59.50, ISBN 0-19-262899-2, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1999.
The Wounded Healer: Addiction-Sensitive Approach to the Sexually Exploitative Professional
by Richard Irons and Jennifer P. Schneider, 252 pp, $35, ISBN 1-56821-763-3, Northvale, NJ, Jason Aronson, 1999.
Public HealthPlanning and Implementing Effective Tobacco Education and Prevention Programs
edited by Martin L. Forst, 269 pp, $43.95, Springfield, Ill, Charles C. Thomas Publishers, 1999.
StatisticsGroup Sequential Methods with Applications to Clinical Trials
by Christopher Jennison and Bruce W. Turnbull, 390 pp, with illus, ISBN 0-8493-0316-8, New York, NY, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2000.
SurgeryControversies in Spine Surgery, vol 1
edited by Thomas A. Zdeblick, Edward C. Benzel, Paul A. Anderson and Charles B. Stillerman, 330 pp, with illus, $75, ISBN 1-57626-002-X, St Louis, Mo, Quality Medical Publishing, 1999.
Prognosis and Outcomes in Surgical Disease
edited by Daniel P. McKellar, Richard B. Reiling, Ben Eiseman, 465 pp, with illus, soft cover, $85, ISBN 1-57626-101-8, St Louis, Mo, Quality Medical Publishing, 1999.
The Transplant Patient: Biological, Psychiatric and Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation
edited by Paula Trezepacz and Andrea DiMartini, 304 pp, with illus, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-55354-7, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Vascular Surgical Approaches
edited by Alain Branchereau, Ramon Berguer, 344 pp, with illus, $115, ISBN 0-87993-664-9, Armonk, NY, Futura Publishing Co, 1999.

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