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JAMA. 2001;285(8):1073. doi:10.1001/jama.285.8.1073.
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Alternative and Complementary MedicineClinical Acupuncture: Scientific Basis

edited by Gabriel Stux and Richard Hammerschlag, 227 pp, with illus, soft cover, $25, ISBN 3-540-64054-1, New York, NY, Springer, 2001.
AnesthesiologyObstetric Anesthesia Handbook
by Sanjay Datta, 3rd ed, 401 pp, with illus, $37, ISBN 1-56053-405-2, Philadelphia, Pa, Hanley & Belfus, 2000.
Biography, MemoirA Life in Medicine
by Oscar Craig, 260 pp, £14.99, ISBN 0-9538079-0-8, London, England, Oscar Craig (available from Baines Bookshop, 3 Lower Square Civic Centre, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 1EA, UK; 020-8661-1667), 2000 (memoir by general practitioner, surgeon, and radiologist educated in Dublin with practice in England).
Patient Persistence
by Adele M. Gill, 193 pp, with illus, paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-930958-00-4, Chattanooga, Tenn, Exceptional Parents, 2000 (collected personal accounts of life with debilitating disorders).
CancerBreast Cancer Treatment Guidelines for Patients, Version 3
51 pp, with illus, gratis, Decatur, Ga, American Cancer Society, Rockledge, Pa, National Comprehensive Cancer Network (http://www.cancer.org, 1-800-ACS-2345 or http://www.nccn.org, 1-888-909-NCCN), 2000.
Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine e.5
edited by Robert C. Blast, Jr, Donald W. Kufe, Raphael E. Pollock, Ralph R. Weichselbaum, James F. Holland, and Emil Frei, 5th ed, with CD-ROM, 2546 pp, with illus, $249, ISBN 1-55009-113-1, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, BC Decker, 2000.
Minimal Residual Disease in Melanoma: Biology, Detection and Clinical Relevance
edited by U. Reinhold and W. Tilgen (Recent Results in Cancer Research, No. 158), 268 pp, with illus, $125, ISBN 3-540-67349-0, New York, NY, Springer, 2001.
What Is Cancer? Theories on Carcinogenesis
edited by Willem Den Otter, Robert Root-Bernstein, and Jan-Willem Koten (Anticancer Research, vol 19, No. 6A) November-December 1999), 334 pp, paper, $190, International Institute of Anticancer Research, PO Box 22, Attiki 19104, Greece, 1999.
DermatologyThe Skin and Gene Therapy
edited by Ulrich R. Hengge and Beatrix Volc-Platzer, 301 pp, with illus, $84, ISBN 3-540-66760-1, New York, Springer, 2001.
EducationEducating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education
edited by Delese Wear and Janet Bickel, 215 pp, $42.95, ISBN 0-87745-741-7, Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 2000.
EthicsBioethics: Ancient Themes in Contemporary Issues
edited by Mark G. Kuczewski and Ronald Polansky (Basic Bioethics), 304 pp, $36.95, ISBN 0-262-11254-X, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 2000.
HistoryBuried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear
by Jan Bondeson, 308 pp, with illus, $23.95, ISBN 0-393-04906, New York, NY, WW Norton & Co, 2001.
Clinical Research in Britain, 1950-1980
edited by L. A. Reynolds and E. M. Tansey (Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol 7), 74 pp, paper, $8, ISBN 1-841290-16-5, London, England, Wellcome Trust, 2000.
Early Heart Transplant Surgery in the UK
edited by E. M. Tansey and L. A. Reynolds (Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol 3), 72 pp, with illus, paper, $8, ISBN 1-841290-07-6, London, England, Wellcome Trust, 1999.
Haemophilia Recent History of Clinical Management
edited by E. M. Tansey and D. A. Christie (Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine, vol 4), 90 pp, with illus, paper, $8, ISBN 1-841290-08-4, London, England, Wellcome Trust, 1999.
Infectious DiseaseBiological Safety: Principles and Practices
edited by Diane O. Fleming and Debra L. Hunt, 3rd ed, 784 pp, with illus, $89.95, ISBN 1-55581-180-9, Washington, DC, American Society for Microbiology, 2000.
Sexually Transmitted Infections: Colour Guide
by A. McMillan and G. R. Scott, 2nd ed, 122 pp, with illus, paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-443006229-3, New York, NY, Churchill Livingstone, 2000.
Tuberculosis: Current Concepts and Treatment
edited by Lloyd N. Friedman, 2nd ed, 518 pp, with illus, $99.95, ISBN 0-8493-1565-4, New York, NY, CRC Press, 2001.
MedicineHughes Syndrome: Antiphospholipid Syndrome
edited by M. A. Khamashta, 474 pp, with illus, soft cover, $99, ISBN 1-85233-232-8, New York, NY, Springer, 2000.
Nausea and Vomiting: Overview, Challenges, Practical Treatments and New Perspectives
by Richard H. Blum, W. LeRoy Heinrichs, and Andrew Herxheimer, 620 pp, with illus, $140, ISBN 1-86156-079-6, Philadelphia, Pa, Whurr Publishers, 2000.
MiscellaneousClimb That Mountain One Last Time
by J. J. Van Gasse, 560 pp, $16.95, ISBN 1-882792-98-X, Ann Arbor, Mich, Proctor Publications, 2000 (end-of-life novel by a medical school classmate of Jack Kevorkian, MD).
Diagnosis and Management of Pituitary Tumors
edited by Kamal Thaper, Kalman Kovacs, Bernd W. Scheithauer, and Ricardo V. Lloyd, 479 pp, with illus, $225, ISBN 0-89603-403-8, Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2000.
NephrologyAtlas of Renal Ultrasonography
by W. Charles O'Neill, 272 pp, with illus, $95, ISBN 0-7216-8913-2, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders, 2001.
Legal and Ethical Concerns in Treating Kidney Failure: Case Study Workbook
edited by Eli A. Friedman (Legal and Ethical Concerns in Medicine), 213 pp, $93, ISBN 0-7923-6570-4, Boston, Mass, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
NeurologyEpilepsy: Comprehensive Review and Case Discussion
edited by Hans Lüders, 440 pp, with illus, $125, ISBN 1-85317-741-5, London, United Kingdom, Martin Dunitz, 2000.
Neuro-Ophthalmology: Diagnosis and Management
by Grant T. Liu, Nicholas J. Volpe, and Steven L. Galetta, 780 pp, with illus, $125, ISBN 0-7216-65533-0, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders, 2001.
Neurons in Action: Computer Simulations With NeuroLab
by John W. Moore and Ann E. Stuart, CD-ROM and 93-pp guide, with illus, spiral-bound, $29.95, ISBN 0-87893-538-X, Sunderland, Mass, Sinauer Associates, 2000.
Neuroscience
edited by Dale Purves, George J. Augustine, David Fitzpatrick, et al, 2nd ed, includes Sylvius 2.0: Fundamentals of Human Neural Structure CD-ROM, 680 pp, with illus, $76.95, ISBN 0-87893-742-0, Sunderland, Mass, Sinauer Associates, 2000.
Obstetrics-GynecologySurgical Alternatives to Hysterectomy for Abdominal Uterine Bleeding
(June 2000 Physician Report), 55 pp, paper, St Paul, Minn, Health Technology Advisory Committee, 2000.
OphthalmologyClinical Pathways in Glaucoma
by Thom J. Zimmerman and Karanjit S. Kooner, 565 pp, with illus, $99, ISBN 0-86577-919-8, New York, NY, Thieme, 2001.
OrthopedicsKey Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery
by Steven H. Stern, 352 pp, with illus, $119, ISBN 0-86577-922-8, New York, NY, Thieme, 2000.
The Wrist
edited by H. Kirk Watson and Jeffrey Weinzweig, 985 pp, with illus, $299, ISBN 0-397-51726-2, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001.
PathologyPathology of the Gallbladder, Biliary Tract and Pancreas
by David A. Owen and James K. Kelly (Major Problems in Pathology, vol 39), 365 pp, with illus, $79, ISBN 0-7216-1910-X, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders, 2001.
PediatricsThe Clinical Handbook of Pediatric Infectious Disease
edited by Russell W. Steele, 2nd ed, 269 pp, with illus, paper, $38.50, ISBN 1-85070-342-6, New York, NY, Parthenon Publishing Group, 2000.
Pharmacology-TherapeuticsAngiotensin II Receptor Antagonists
by Murray Epstein and Hans Brunner, 384 pp, with illus, $75.95, ISBN 1-56053-453-2, Philadelphia, Pa, Hanley & Belfus, 2001.
Anxiolytics
edited by M. Briley and D. Nutt (Milestones in Drug Therapy), 181 pp, with illus, $112, ISBN 3-7643-6032-1, Boston, Mass, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2000.
Handbook on Injectable Drugs
by Lawrence A. Trissel, 11th ed, 1432 pp, $157.50, ISBN 1-58528-016-X, Bethesda, Md, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, 2001.
Pharmacist's Drug Handbook
edited by Cindy Laufenberg, Theresa P. Fulginiti, Peter H. Johnson, Nancy LaPlante, Pamela S. Messer, and Kimberly A. Zalewski, 1282 pp, with illus, paper, $44.95, ISBN 1-58255-093-X, Springhouse, Pa, Springhouse Corp, 2001.
RadiationRadiation Protection for Procedures Performed Outside The Radiology Department
(NCRP Report No. 133), 104 pp, paper, $30, Bethesda, Md, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement, 2000.
Sports-ExerciseClinical Sports Medicine
by Peter Brukner and Karim Khan, 2nd ed, 918 pp, with illus, $89.95, ISBN 0-07-470651-9, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Clinical Sports Nutrition
edited by Louise Burke and Vicki Deakin, 2nd ed, 759 pp, with illus, paper, $84.95, ISBN 0-07-470828-7, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Endurance in Sport
edited by R. J. Shephard and P.-O. Astrand, 2nd ed (Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine, vol 12, IOC Medical Commission and International Federation of Sports Medicine), 987 pp, with illus, $125, ISBN 0-632-05348-8, Malden, Mass, Blackwell Science, 2000.
Introduction to Exercise Science
edited by Stanley P. Brown, 403 pp, with illus, soft cover, $45, ISBN 0-683-30280-9, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001.

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