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JAMA. 2001;285(23):3027-3028. doi:10.1001/jama.285.23.3027.
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Alcohol and Drug DependenceForces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World

by David T. Courtwright, 277 pp, with illus, $24.95, ISBN 0-674-00458-2, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2001.
Biology, Molecular MedicineCells and Surveys: Should Biological Measures Be Included in Social Science Research?
edited by Caleb E. Finch, James W. Vaupel, and Kevin Kinsella (National Research Council, Committee on Population workshop, Washington, DC, February 2000), 374 pp, paper, $49, ISBN 0-309-07199-2, Washington, DC, National Academy Press, 2001.
The Centrosome in Cell Replication and Early Development
edited by Robert E. Palazzo and Gerald P. Schatten (Current Topics in Developmental Biology), 483 pp, with illus, $129.95, ISBN 0-12-153149-X, San Diego, Calif, Academic Press, 2000.
Design for a Life: How Biology and Psychology Shape Human Behavior
by Patrick Bateson and Paul Martin, 271 pp, paper, $14, ISBN 0-684-86933-0, New York, NY, Touchstone Books, 2000.
The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium
by Joseph L. Graves, Jr, 252 pp, $28, ISBN 0-8135-2847-X, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2001.
Glutamine Repeats and Neurodegenerative Diseases: Molecular Aspects
edited by Peter Harper and Max Perutz, 312 pp, with illus, $95, ISBN 0-19-850685-6, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2001.
Critical CareIntensive Care Infections: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management in Adult Patients
by Hilary Humphreys, Sheila M. Willatts, and Jean-Louis Vincent, 248 pp, paper, $39, ISBN 0-7020-2242-X, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders, 2000.
GeneticsGenetic Testing and Screening in the Age of Genomic Medicine
edited by New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, 411 pp, paper, ISBN 1-881268-05-5, New York, NY, New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, 2000.
Medicine and the Human Genome: The New Genetics: Molecular Concepts, Applications and Ramifications
edited by Sara L. Tobin and Ann Boughton, CD-ROM, PC: Windows 98 minimum, 4× or higher CD-ROM drive, Audio, 16 MB or more free RAM, MAC: Mac OS 8.1 minimum, 4× or higher CD-ROM drive, 16 MB or more free RAM, $249.95, ISBN 0-9707754-1-5, San Francisco, Calif, Twisted Ladder Media (http://www.twistedladdermedia.com), 2000 (courseware for physicians, with continuing medical education credits).
GeriatricsThe Merck Manual of Geriatrics
edited by Mark H. Beers and Robert Berkow, 3rd ed, 1507 pp, with illus, $32.50, ISBN 0911910-88-3, Whitehouse Station, NJ, Merck Research Laboratories, 2000. Complete online edition available gratis at: http://www.merck.com/pubs/mm_geriatrics.
Health SystemsFrontiers in Health Policy Research 3
edited by Alan M. Garber, 136 pp, paper, $20, ISBN 0-262-57141-2, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 2001.
Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations
edited by Roberta Carroll, 3rd ed (American Society for Healthcare Risk Management), 938 pp, $129.95, ISBN 0-7879-5553-1, San Francisco, Calif, Jossey-Bass, 2001.
HistoryDying in the City of Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health
by Keith Wailoo (Studies in Social Medicine), 338 pp, with illus, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2584-0, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Great Feuds in Medicine: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever
by Hal Hellman, 237 pp, $24.95, ISBN 0-471-34757-4, New York, NY, John Wiley & Sons, 2001.
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
by Norman F. Cantor, 245 pp, $25, ISBN 0-684-85735-9, New York, NY, Free Press, 2001.
ImagingBreast Disease (Third Series)
by Lawrence W. Bassett, Stephen A. Feig, R. Edward Hendrick, Valerie P. Jackson, and Edward A. Sickles (Professional Self-Evaluation Program, vol 47), 227 pp, with illus, $160 members, $135 members in training, $230 nonmenbers, ISBN 1-55903-047-X, Reston, Va, American College of Radiology, 2000.
Magnetic Resonance Procedures: Health and Effects and Safety
edited by Frank G. Shellock, 453 pp, with illus, $79.95, ISBN 0-8493-0874-7, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press, 2001.
Infectious DiseaseCell Wall Deficient Forms: Stealth Pathogens
by Lida H. Mattman, 3rd ed, 416 pp, with illus, $99.95, ISBN 0-8493-8767-1, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press, 2001.
Viral Pathogenesis in Diagrams
by Hans W. Ackermann, Laurent Berthiaume, and Michel Tremblay, 250 pp, with illus, $89.95, ISBN 0-8493-2207-3, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press, 2001.
MiscellaneousEndoscopic Evaluation and Treatment of Swallowing Disorders
by Susan E. Langmore, 263 pp, with illus, $89, ISBN 0-86577-838-8, New York, NY, Thieme, 2000.
Handbook of Religion and Health
by Harold G. Koenig, Michael E. McCullough, and David B. Larson, 712 pp, $65, ISBN 0-19-511866-9, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2001.
NeonatologyCurrent Topics in Neonatology, No. 4
edited by Thomas N. Hansen and Neil McIntosh, 272 pp, paper, $55, ISBN 0-7020-2628-X, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders, 2000.
OrthopedicsChapman's Orthopaedic Surgery, vols 1-4
edited by Michael W. Chapman, 3rd ed, 4304 pp, with illus, $425, ISBN 0-7817-1487-7, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001.
The Hand: Fundamentals of Therapy
by Judith Boscheinen-Morrin and W. Bruce Conolly, 3rd ed, 243 pp, with illus, paper, $49.50, ISBN 0-7506-4577-6, Boston, Mass, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001.
Musculoskeletal Fatigue and Stress Fractures
edited by David B. Burr and Chuck Milgrom (CRC Series in Exercise Physiology), 332 pp, with illus, $99.95, ISBN 0-8493-0115-7, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press, 2001.
The Pediatric Spine: Principles and Practice
edited by Stuart L. Weinstein, 2nd ed, 1104 pp, with illus, $245, ISBN 0-7817-1908-9, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001.
PainThe Child With Headache: Diagnosis and Treatment
edited by Patricia A. McGrath and Loretta M. Hillier (Progress in Pain Research and Management, vol 19), 292 pp, $82, ISBN 0-931092-30-2, Seattle, Wash, IASP Press, 2001.
Social Relations and Chronic Pain
by Ranjan Roy (Plenum Series in Rehabilitation and Health), 164 pp, $47.50, ISBN 0-306-46496-9, New York, NY, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001.
Primary CareManagement of Low Back Pain in Primary Care
edited by R. Bartley and P. Coffey, 188 pp, with illus, paper, $32, ISBN 0-7506-4787-6, Boston, Mass, Butterwoth-Heinemann, 2001.
Resuscitation in Primary Care
by Michael Colquhoun and Philip Jevon, 133 pp, with illus, paper, $34, ISBN 0-7506-4249-1, Boston, Mass, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001.
PsychiatryThe Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
by J. Allan Hobson, 318 pp, with illus, paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-262-08293-4, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 2001.
The Environment of Schizophrenia: Innovations in Practice, Policy and Communications
by Richard Warner, 160 pp, paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-41522-307-5, Philadelphia, Pa, Brunner Routledge, 2000.
The Fragile Alliance: An Orientation to Psychotherapy of the Adolescent
by John E. Meeks and William Bernet, 5th ed, 486 pp, $53, ISBN 1-57524-125-0, Malabar, Fla, Krieger Publishing, 2001.
In Therapy We Trust: America's Obsession with Self-fulfillment
by Eva S. Moskowitz, 326 pp, $34.95, ISBN 0-8018-6403-8, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Medical Neuropsychology
edited by Ralph E. Tarter, Meryl Butters, and Sue R. Beers, 2nd ed (Critical Issues in Neuropsychology), 346 pp, with illus, $75, ISBN 0-306-46370-9, New York, NY, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001.
Public HealthInfections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
by Paul Farmer, updated edition with a new preface, 375 pp, paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-520-22913-4, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999, 2001.
International Law and Public Health: Materials on and Analysis of Global Health Jurisprudence
by David P. Fidler, 645 pp, $145, ISBN 1-57105-123-6, Ardsley, NY, Transnational Publishers, 2000.
RheumatologyPrimary Care Rheumatology
by Edward D. Harris, Jr, and Mark C. Genovese, 411 pp, $52, ISBN 0-7216-7172-1, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders, 2000.
Questions and Answers About . . . Sjögren's Syndrome
edited by National Institute of Arthritis and Muscoloskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMSD), National Institutes of Health, paper, 34 pp, Bethesda, Md, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, 2001.
SurgeryA Concise Guide to Intraoperative Monitoring
by George Zouridakis and Andrew C. Papanicolaou, 200 pp, with illus, $79.95, ISBN 0-8493-0886-0, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press, 2001.
Essential Illustrated Neurosurgery
by A. Fortuna, L. Ferrante, and P. Lunardi, 252 pp, with illus, $99, ISBN 88-470-0126-9, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag, 2001.
Laser in Aesthetic Surgery
edited by Gregory S. Keller, Victor G. Lacombe, Patrick K. Lee, and James P. Watson, 368 pp, with illus, $169, ISBN 0-86577-850-7, New York, NY, Thieme, 2001.
MasterCases: Spine Surgery
by Alexander R. Vaccaro and Todd J. Albert, 535 pp, with illus, $149, ISBN 0-86577-924-4, New York, NY, Thieme, 2001.
Minimally Invasive Abdominal Surgery
edited by Karl Kremer, Werner Platzer, Hans Wilhelm, and Felicien M. Steichen, 465 pp, with illus, $249, ISBN 0-86577-639-3, New York, NY, Thieme Stuttgart, 2001.
Practical Plastic Surgery for Nonsurgeons
by Nadine B. Semer, 390 pp, paper, $35, ISBN 1-56053-478-8, Philadelphia, Pa, Hanley & Belfus, 2001.
ToxicologyChemical Warfare Agents: Toxicity at Low Levels
edited by Satu M. Somani and James A. Romano, Jr, 447 pp, $129.95, ISBN 0-8493-0872-0, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press, 2001.

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