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JAMA. 2004;292(8):. doi:10.1001/jama.292.8.984-b.
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AnesthesiologyVascular Anesthesia

edited by Joel A. Kaplan, Carol L. Lake, and Michael J. Murray, 2nd ed, 423 pp, with illus, $150, ISBN 0-443-06620-5, Philadelphia, Pa, Churchill Livingstone, 2004.
Biography, MemoirMetamorphoses: Memoirs of a Life in Medicine
by William G. Anlyan, 238 pp, with illus, $29.95, ISBN 0-8223-3378-3, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2004.
What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey
by Audrey Young, 181 pp, $22.95, ISBN 1-57061-396-6, Seattle, Wash, Sasquatch Books, 2004 (experiences in rural Northwest United States and Swaziland).
CancerShould I Be Tested for Cancer?
by H. Gilbert Welch, 224 pp, with illus, $19.95, 0-520-23976-8, Berkeley, Calif, University of California Press, 2004.
Emergency MedicineDr Cross's Emergency Room Patient Data Flow Sheet
by Harold Cross, emergency department flowsheet (spreadsheet) for the unstable patient for real-time cording, monitoring, managing, and transferring care to the next provider, gratis, Beaufort, SC, Harold D. Cross, MD, http://www.erflowsheet.com, 2004.
EthicsEthical Foundations of Palliative Care for Alzheimer Disease
edited by Ruth B. Purtilo and Henk A. M. J. ten Have, 368 pp, $49.95, ISBN 0-8018-7870-5, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Transplanting Human Tissue: Ethics, Policy, and Practice
edited by Stuart J. Youngner, Martha W. Anderson, and Renie Schapiro, 216 pp, with illus, $39.95, ISBN 0-19-516284-6, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2004.
GeneticsGenetic Disorders of the Fetus: Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment
edited by Aubrey Milunsky, 5th ed, 1224 pp, with illus, $225, ISBN 0-8018-7928-0, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
GeriatricsAging With a Disability: What the Clinician Needs to Know
edited by Bryan J. Kemp and Laura Mosqueda, 307 pp, with illus, $55, ISBN 0-8018-7817-9, paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8018-7816-0, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Current Geriatric Diagnosis and Treatment
edited by C. Seth Landefeld, Robert M. Palmer, Mary Anne Johnson, C. Bree Johnston, and William L. Lyons, 558 pp, with illus, paper, $59.95, ISBN 0-07-139924-0, New York, NY, Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Health SystemsBetter Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream
by Carl Elliott, 357 pp, paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-393-32565-2, New York, NY, WW Norton & Co, 2003 (hardcover edition reviewed in JAMA September 17, 2003).
Exploiting Knowledge in Health Services
edited by Graham Walton and Andrew Booth, 274 pp, $125, ISBN 1-85604-479-3, London, England, Facet Publishing, New York, NY, Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2004.
ImagingColor Atlas of Ultrasound Anatomy
by B. Block (Thieme Flexibook), 282 pp, with illus, paper, $44, ISBN 1-58890-281-1, Stuttgart, Germany, Georg Thieme Verlag, New York, NY, Thieme, 2004.
Diseases of the Brain, Head and Neck, Spine: Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Techniques
edited by G. K. von Schulthess and C. L. Zollikofer (course, Davos, Switzerland, March-April 2004), 200 pp, with illus, paper, $99, ISBN 88-470-0251-6, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
Infectious DiseaseJawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg's Medical Microbiology
by Geo F. Brooks, Janet S. Butel, and Stephen A. Morse, 23rd ed, 818 pp, with illus, paper, $49.95, ISBN 0-07-141207-7, New York, NY, Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, 2004.
LawIntellectual Property Law for Engineers and Scientists
by Howard B. Rockman, 511 pp, with illus, $79.95, ISBN 0-471-44998-9, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE Press, Hoboken, NJ, Wiley-Interscience, 2004.
MedicineField Guide to the Difficult Patient Interview
by Frederic W. Platt and Geoffrey H. Gordon, 2nd ed, 297 pp, with illus, paper, $32.95, ISBN 0-7817-4774-0, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.
Osteoporosis in Focus
by Niall Ferguson, 229 pp, $45, ISBN 0-85369-483-4, Chicago, Ill, Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2004.
Textbook of Diabetic Neuropathy
by F. Arnold Gries, Norman E. Cameron, Phillip A. Low, and Dan Ziegler, 394 pp, with illus, $89, ISBN 3-13-127581-2, Stuttgart, Germany, Georg Thieme Verlag, New York, NY, Thieme, 2003.
MiscellaneousThe Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin
by Keith E. Stanovich, 358 pp, with illus, $27.50, ISBN 0-226-77089-3, Chicago, Ill, University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Searching Among the Dead: A Coroner's Tale
by J. Dalton Hayes, 408 pp, paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-9749857-1-6, Binghamton, NY, Stone Mansion Associates, 2003 (mystery romance novel narrated by newly graduated forensic pathologist; "each chapter contains a coroner's story").
NeurologyEpilepsy in Children
edited by Sheila J. Wallace and Kevin Farrell, 2nd ed, 497 pp, with illus, $168.75, ISBN 0-340-80814-4, London, England, Arnold, 2004.
Handbook of Stroke Prevention in Clinical Practice
edited by Karen L. Furie and Peter J. Kelly (Current Clinical Neurology), includes CD-ROM, 310 pp, with illus, $99.50, ISBN 1-588-29-158-8, Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2004.
Fifty Neurologic Cases From Mayo Clinic
edited by John H. Noseworthy, 218 pp, with illus, paper, $39.95, ISBN 0-19-517745-2, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Manual of Neurologic Therapeutics
edited by Martin A. Samuels, 7th ed, 578 pp, paper, $39.95, ISBN 0-7817-4646-9, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.
Neurology for the Non-Neurologist
edited by William J. Weiner and Christopher G. Goetz, 5th ed, 610 pp, with illus, paper, $59.95, ISBN 0-7817-4631-0, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.
Neurology
by Howard L. Weiner, Lawrence P. Levitt, and Alexander Rae-Grant, 7th ed (House Officer Series), 318 pp, with illus, paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-7817-4747-3, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.
Surgical Neuroangiography, vols 2.1 & 2.2
edited by A. Berenstein, P. Lasjaunias, and K. G. Ter Brugge, 2nd ed, 1280 pp, with illus, $749, ISBN 3-540-41668-4, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
OrthopedicsPediatric Fractures and Dislocations
by Lutz von Laer, 518 pp, with illus, $129, ISBN 1-58890-260-9, Stuttgart, Germany, Georg Thieme Verlag, New York, NY, Thieme, 2004.
The Shoulder, vols 1 & 2
edited by Charles A. Rockwood, Jr, Frederick A. Matsen III, Michael A. Wirth, and Steven B. Lippitt, 3rd ed, includes DVD, 1487 pp, with illus, $249, ISBN 0-7216-0148-0, Philadelphia, Pa, Saunders, 2004.
PsychiatryThe Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies: A Practitioner's Guide
edited by Mantosh J. Dewan, Brett N. Steenbarger, and Roger P. Greenberg (Core Competencies in Psychotherapy), 307 pp, paper, $38.50, ISBN 1-58562-067-X, Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2004.
Case Files: Psychiatry
by Eugene C. Toy and Debra Klamen (Lange), 452 pp, paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-07-142182-3, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Family Treatment of Personality Disorders: Advances in Clinical Practice
edited by Malcolm M. MacFarlane, 409 pp, $49.95, ISBN 0-7890-1789-X, paper, $34.95, ISBN 0-7890-1790-3, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Clinical Practice Press, 2004.
A Guide to Self-Help Workbooks for Mental Health Clinicians and Researchers
by Luciano L'Abate, 221 pp, $39.95, ISBN 0-7890-2261-3, paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7890-2262-1, Binghamton, NJ, Haworth Clinical Practice Press, 2004.
Nuclear Medicine in Psychiatry
edited by Andreas Otte, Kurt Audenaert, Kathelijne Peremans, Kees van Heeringen, and Rudi A. Dierckx, 561 pp, with illus, $229, ISBN 3-540-00683-4, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
Public HealthMental Health Services: A Public Health Perspective
edited by Bruce Lubotsky Levin, John Petrila, and Kevin D. Hennessy, 2nd ed, 474 pp, $65, ISBN 0-19-515395-2, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2004.
ReferenceBlack's Medical Dictionary
edited by Gordon Macpherson, 40th ed, 733 pp, with illus, $65, ISBN 0-8108-4984-4, Lanham, Md, Scarecrow Press, 2004.
The Medical Library Association Encyclopedic Guide to Searching and Finding Health Information on the Web, vols 1-3
edited by P. F. Anderson and Nancy J. Allee, 883 pp, paper, $395, ISBN 1-55570-494-8, CD $395, ISBN 1-55570-495-6, print volumes and CD $495, ISBN 1-55570-496-4, New York, NY, Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2004.
RheumatologyOsteoarthritis
edited by Kenneth D. Brandt, Michael Doherty, and L. Stefan Lohmander, 2nd ed, 511 pp, with illus, $179.50, ISBN 0-19-850967-7, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2003.
SexualityThe Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America
by Meika Loe, 267 pp, with illus, $27.95, ISBN 0-8147-5200-4, New York, NY, New York University Press, 2004.
Sports-ExerciseDr. Divot's Guide to Golf Injuries: A Handbook for Golf Injury Prevention and Treatment
by Larry Foster, 224 pp, with illus, paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-9747315-4-4, North Salem, NY, Dr. Divot Publishing, 2004.
StatisticsStatistical Analysis of Epidemiologic Data
by Steve Selvin, 3rd ed (Monographs in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, vol 35), 492 pp, with illus, $59.95, ISBN 0-19-517280-9, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2004.
SurgerySurgery of Coronary Artery Disease
edited by David J. Wheatley, 2nd ed, 404 pp, with illus, $198.50, ISBN 0-340-80787-3, London, England, Arnold, 2003.

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