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Alternative and Complementary MedicineMedicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets

by Mark J. Plotkin, 214 pp, paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-670-86937-6, New York, NY, Penguin Putnam Inc, 2000.
The Chiropractic Profession: Its Education, Practice, Research and Future Directions
by David A. Chapman-Smith, 159 pp, with illus, ISBN 1-892734-02-8, West Des Moines, Iowa, NCMIC Group Inc, 2000.
Biography, MemoirThe Good, the Bad, and the Homely: Essays by an Old-Fashioned Country Plastic Surgeon
by Charles E. Moore, 360 pp, with illus, $40, ISBN 1-893357-03-1, New York, NY, Ardor Scribendi, 2000.
CancerComprehensive Textbook of Genitourinary Oncology
edited by Nicholas J. Vogelzang, Peter T. Scardino, William U. Shipley, Donald S. Coffey, and Brian J. Miles, 2nd ed, 1177 pp, with illus, $150, ISBN 0-683-30645-6, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
High-Dose Cancer Therapy: Pharmacology, Hematopoietins, Stem Cells
edited by James O. Armitage and Karen H. Antman, 3rd ed, 951 pp, with illus, $130, ISBN 0-683-30654-5, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
DermatologyColor Atlas of Dermatology
by Jeffrey P. Callen, Amy S. Paller, Kenneth E. Greer and Leonard J. Swinyer, 395 pp, with illus, $145, ISBN 0-7216-8256-1, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders, 2000.
Manual of Cutaneous Laser Techniques
by Tina S. Alster, 2nd ed, 260 pp, with illus, $116, ISBN 0-7817-1960-7, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
Manual of Sclerotherapy
by Neil S. Sadick, 272 pp, with illus, $125, ISBN 0-397-51742-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
Emergency MedicineManual of Emergency Medicine
by Jon L. Jenkins and G. Richard Braen, 672 pp, spiral-bound, $39.95, ISBN 0-7817-1726-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
EndocrinologyOsteoporosis: Genetics, Prevention and Treatment
edited by John S. Adams and Barbara P. Lukert (Endocrine Updates, No. 3), 308 pp, $180, ISBN 0792383664, Boston, Mass, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
EthicsL'Euthanasie Volontaire
by Anita Hocquard, 257 pp, paper, ISBN 213-050192-3, Paris, France, Presses Universitaires de France, 1999.
HIVBreastfeeding and HIV/AIDS: The Research, the Politics, the Women's Responses
by Edith White, 204 pp, paper, $39.95, ISBN 0-7864-0694-1, Jefferson, NC, 28640, McFarland & Co, Publishers, Box 611, 1999.
Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency
by Cristiana Bastos, 225 pp, $27.95, ISBN 0-253-33590-6, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1999.
HistoryBooks of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning
by Andrea Carlino, translated by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi, 266 pp, $29, ISBN 0-226-09287-9, Chicago, Ill, University of Chicago Press, 2000.
ImagingApplied Radiological Anatomy
edited by Paul Butler, Adam W. M. Mitchell and Harold Ellis, 441 pp, with illus, $200, ISBN 0-521-48110-4, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Clinical Positron Emission Tomography (PET): Correlation With Morphological Cross-Sectional Imaging
edited by Gustav K. von Schulthess, 260 pp, with illus, $125, ISBN 0-7817-1756-6, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
Double Contrast Gastrointestinal Radiology
by Marc S. Levine, Stephen E. Rubesin and Igor Laufer, 3rd ed, 536 pp, with illus, $165, ISBN 0-7216-8211-1, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders, 2000.
Variants and Pitfalls in Body Imaging
edited by Ali Shirkhoda, 749 pp, $175, ISBN 0-683-30058-X, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
MedicineThe ABCs of Antihypertensive Therapy
edited by Franz H. Messerli, 2nd ed, 324 pp, paper, $49, ISBN 1-881063-07-0, New York, NY, Authors Publishing House, 2000.
Nephrology and Hypertension
edited by C. Craig Tisher and Christopher S. Wilcox (House Officer Series), 4th ed, 344 pp, with illus, paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-7817-2077-X, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999.
Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
edited by David E. Thaler, R. A. Hope, and J. M. Longmore, American ed, 844 pp, soft cover, $29.95, ISBN 0-19-512572, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1999.
A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis
edited by Stephen N. Adler, Dianne B. Gasbarra, and Debra Adler-Klein, 4th ed, 438 pp, paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7817-1943-7, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
Where's the Evidence? Debates in Modern Medicine
by William A. Silverman, 259 pp, $36.50, ISBN 0-19-262934-4, paper, $32.50, ISBN 0-19-263088-1, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1999.
NutritionThe Complete Book of Food Counts
by Corinne T. Netzer, 5th ed, 839 pp, paper, $7.50, ISBN 0-440-22563-9, New York, NY, Dell, 2000.
Handbook of Dairy Foods and Nutrition
by Gregory D. Miller, Judith K. Jarvis and Lois D. McBean, 2nd ed, 423 pp, $89.95, ISBN 0-8493-8731-0, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press, 2000.
Micronutrients in Health and Disease
edited by Ian Bremner, Peter J. Aggett, and Philip James (British Medical Bulletin: A Series of Expert Reviews, vol 55, No. 3), paper, L34.95, ISBN 1-853154350, London, England, Royal Society of Medicine Press, 1999.
Occupational HealthContributions to the History of Occupational and Environmental Protection
edited by Antonio Grieco, Sergio Iavicoli, and Giovanni Berlinguer (Excerpta Medica International Congress Series 1189; conference, Rome, Italy, October 1998), 424 pp, with illus, $165, ISBN 0-444-50255-6, New York, NY, Elsevier, 1999.
OphthalmologyClinical Manual of Contact Lenses
edited by Edward S. Bennett and Vinita Allee Henry, 2nd ed, 639 pp, with illus, paper, $59.95, ISBN 0-7817-1951-8, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.
The Ophthalmic Assistant: A Guide for Ophthalmic Medical Personnel
by Harold A. Stein, Bernard J. Slatt and Raymond M. Stein, 7th ed, 880 pp, with illus, paper, $63, ISBN 0-323-00913-1, St Louis, Mo, Mosby, 2000.
Pharmacology-TherapeuticsInteractions: The IBIS Guide to Drug-Herb and Drug-Nutrient Interactions
one CD-ROM for Win 95/98/2000 or Mac S 7.1 or higher, $99.95, ISSN 1526-3274, Beaverton, Ore, Integrative Medical Arts Group, http://www.IBISmedical.com, interactions@IBISmedical.com, 1999.
Pharmaceutical Innovation: Revolutionizing Human Health
edited by Ralph Landau, Basil Achilladelis and Alexander Sciabine, 408 pp, $44.95, ISBN 0-941901-21-1, Philadelphia, Pa, Chemical Heritage Press, 1999.
PhysiologyBiologic Effects of Light 1998
edited by Michael F. Holick and Ernst G. Jung (symposium, Basel, Switzerland, November 1998) 491 pp, $190, ISBN 0792385500, Boston, Mass, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
Primary CareMen's Health
edited by Roger S. Kirby, Michael G. Kirby, Riad N. Farah and foreword by Donald Acheson, 254 pp, with illus, $59.95, ISBN 1 899066-92-6, San Francisco, Calif, Isis Medical Media, 1999.
Sex, GenderGenes, Women, Equality
by Mary Briody Mahowald, 314 pp, $39.95, ISBN 0-19-512110-4, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Sports-ExercisePrinciples of Exercise Testing and Interpretation: Including Pathophysiology and Clinical Applications
edited by Karlman Wasserman, James E. Hansen, Darryl Y. Sue, Richard Casabari, and Brian J. Whipp, 3rd ed, 556 pp, with illus, $65, ISBN 0-683-30646-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999.

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