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JAMA. 2005;293(15):1927-1928. doi:10.1001/jama.293.15.1927.
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Books, Journals, New Media Section Editor: Harriet S. Meyer, MD, Contributing Editor, JAMA; Journal Review Editor: Brenda L. Seago, MLS, MA, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Alternative and Complementary MedicineCopeland’s Cure: Homeopathy and the War Between Conventional and Alternative Medicine

by Natalie Robins, 330 pp, with illus, $24.95, ISBN 0-375-41090-2, New York, NY, Alfred A Knopf, 2005.
Curandero: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing
by Eliseo “Cheo” Torres with Timothy L. Sawyer, Jr, 170 pp, with illus, paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8263-3640-X, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
Healing by Hand: Manual Medicine and Bonesetting in Global Perspective
edited by Kathryn S. Oths and Servando Z. Hinojosa, 291 pp, with illus, paper, $32.95, ISBN 0-7591-0393-3, Walnut Creek, Calif, AltaMira Press, 2004.
Medicinal Herbs: A Compendium
by Beatrice Gehrmann, Wolf-Gerald Koch, Claus O. Tschirch, and Helmut Brinkmann, 228 pp, $39.95, ISBN 0-7890-2531-0, paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-7890-2530-2, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Herbal Press, 2005.
Mosby’s Dictionary of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
edited by Wayne B. Jonas, 519 pp, with illus, $36.95, ISBN 0-323-02516-1, St Louis, Mo, Elsevier Mosby, 2005.
AnatomyGray’s Anatomy e-dition: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice
edited by Susan Standring, 39th ed, includes CD-ROMs and access to www.graysanatomyonline.com, 1627 pp, with illus, $199, ISBN 0-443-06676-0, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, 2005.
Biochemistry, Molecular MedicineMedical Biochemistry
by John W. Baynes and Marek H. Dominiczak, includes online access and interactive extras, 693 pp, with illus, paper, $56.95, ISBN 0-7234-3341-0, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Mosby, 2005.
CardiologyDrugs for the Heart
by Lionel H. Opie and Bernard J. Gersh, 6th ed, includes access to http://www.opiedrugs.com, 437 pp, with illus, paper, $79.95, ISBN 0-7216-2839-7, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Saunders, 2005.
DermatologySkin Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment
by Thomas P. Habif, James L. Campbell, Jr, M. Shane Chapman, James G. H. Dinulos, and Kathryn A. Zug, 2nd ed, 662 pp, with illus, paper, $49.95, ISBN 0-323-02753-9, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Mosby, 2005.
EducationUniversity Inc: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education
by Jennifer Washburn, 326 pp, $26, ISBN 0-465-09051-6, New York, NY, Basic Books, 2005.
Emergency MedicineGreenberg’s Text-Atlas of Emergency Medicine
edited by Michael I. Greenberg, Robert G. Hendrickson, and Mark Silverberg, et al, 1074 pp, with illus, $199, ISBN 0-7817-4586-1, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
EthicsEye of the Heart: Knowing the Human Good in the Euthanasia Debate
by William F. Sullivan, 407 pp, $85, ISBN 0-8020-3923-5, Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Is Human Nature Obsolete? Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition
edited by Harold W. Baillie and Timothy K. Casey (Basic Bioethics), 422 pp, with illus, paper, $27, ISBN 0-262-52428-7, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 2005.
Medical Errors and Medical Narcissism
by John Banja, 229 pp, $49.95, ISBN 0-7637-8361-7, Sudbury, Mass, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2005.
GastroenterologyPancreatic Disease: Basic Science and Clinical Management
by C. D. Johnson and C. W. Imrie, 490 pp, with illus, $149, ISBN 1-85233-711-7, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
HistoryProfound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America
by Stephanie P. Browner, 304 pp, with illus, $49.95, ISBN 0-8122-3825-7, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Infectious DiseaseBiology of Disease Vectors
edited by William C. Marquardt, Boris C. Kondratieff, and Chester G. Moore, et al, 2nd ed, 785 pp, with illus, $99.95, ISBN 0-12-473276-3, Boston, Mass, Elsevier Academic Press, 2005.
Colonization of Mucosal Surfaces
edited by James P. Nataro, Paul S. Cohen, Harry L. T. Mobley, and Jeffrey N. Weiser, 456 pp, with illus, $119.95, ISBN 1-55581-323-2, Washington, DC, ASM Press, 2005.
LawThe Malpractice Epidemic: A Layman’s Guide to Medical Malpractice
by Bernard Leo Remakus, MD, 2nd ed, 150 pp, paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-595-33755-4, Lincoln, Neb, iUniverse, 2004.
MedicineAn Osteopathic Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment
by Eileen L. DiGiovanna, Stanley Schiowitz, and Dennis J. Dowling, 707 pp, with illus, $79.95, ISBN 0-7817-4293-5, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
Clinical Practice: American College of Physicians Guidelines and U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations
edited by Vincenza Snow (12 ACP guidelines and 13 US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations), 118 pp, with illus, paper, $31, ISBN 1-930513-60-7, Philadelphia, Pa, American College of Physicians, 2005.
Ferri’s Clinical Advisor 2005: Instant Diagnosis and Treatment
edited by Fred F. Ferri, includes CD-ROM, 1380 pp, with illus, $129, ISBN 0-323-02974-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Mosby, 2005.
Obesity and Diabetes
edited by Anthony H. Barnett and Sudhesh Kumar (Diabetes in Practice), 308 pp, with illus, $90, ISBN 0-470-84898-7, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
MiscellaneousThe Fetal Matrix: Evolution, Development and Disease
by Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson, 257 pp, with illus, $90, ISBN 0-521-83457-0, paper, $39.99, ISBN 0-521-54235-9, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
The Forbidden Art of Pregnancy: The Shocking Facts Behind a 700 Year-Old Art World Taboo
by Norman Gardner, 97 pp, with illus, paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-9614112-2-8, Boca Raton, Fla, Aaberation Press, aaberationpress@att.net, 2005.
Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans: Speaking in Red
edited by Ethan Nebelkopf and Mary Phillips (Native American Communities), 227 pp, with illus, paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-7591-0607-X, Walnut Creek, Calif, AltaMira Press, 2004.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins’ Clinical Medical Assisting
by Elizabeth A. Molle, Judy Kronenberger, and Connie West-Stack, 2nd ed, includes CD-ROM and online tutoring, 750 pp, with illus, paper, $55.95, ISBN 0-7817-5028-8, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
NeurologyThe Cognitive Neurosciences III
edited by Michael S. Gazzaniga, 1385 pp, with illus, $145, ISBN 0-262-07254-8, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 2004.
Mechanism and Management of Headache
by James W. Lance and Peter J. Goadsby, 7th ed, 392 pp, with illus, $59.95, ISBN 0-7506-7530-6, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann, 2005.
Parkinson’s Disease
edited by Manuchair Ebadi and Ronald F. Pfeiffer, 1050 pp, with illus, $199.95, ISBN 0-8493-1590-5, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press, 2005.
OphthalmologyPediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
edited by David Taylor and Creig S. Hoyt, 3rd ed, includes CD-ROM, 1170 pp, with illus, $399, ISBN 0-7020-2708-1, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Saunders, 2005.
Shields’ Textbook of Glaucoma
by R. Rand Allingham, Karim Damji, Sharon Freedman, Sayoko Moroi, and George Shafranov, 5th ed, 702 pp, with illus, $159, ISBN 0-7817-3939-X, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
PainManual of Pain Management
edited by Carol A. Warfield and Hilary J. Fausett, 2nd ed, 407 pp, with illus, paper, $59.95, ISBN 0-7817-2313-2, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002.
PathologyNew Method of Identifying Family Related Skulls: Forensic Medicine, Anthropology, Epigenetics
by Zvonka Zupanic Slavec, 255 pp, with illus, $89.95, ISBN 3-211-22044-5, New York, NY, SpringerWienNewYork, 2004.
PediatricsPediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
by S. Jean Emans, Marc R. Laufer, and Donald P. Goldstein, 5th ed, 1076 pp, with illus, paper, $85, ISBN 0-7817-4493-8, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
Pharmacology-TherapeuticsHard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman
by Jamie Reidy, 210 pp, $19.95, ISBN 0-7407-5039-9, Kansas City, Mo, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005.
PsychiatryThe American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis
by Ethel S. Person, Arnold M. Cooper, and Glen O. Gabbard, 602 pp, $95, ISBN 1-58562-152-8, Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2005.
Disasters and Mental Health
edited by Juan José López-Ibor, George Christodoulou, Mario Maj, Norman Sartorius, and Ahmed Okasha (World Psychiatric Association), 275 pp, $125, ISBN 0-470-0212-3, Hoboken, NJ, Wiley, 2005.
Domestic Violence Screening and Intervention in Medical and Mental Healthcare Settings
by L. Kevin Hamberger and Mary Beth Phelan (Springer Series on Family Violence), 339 pp, $45.95, ISBN 0-8261-2535-2, New York, NY, Springer Publishing, 2004.
Effects of and Interventions for Childhood Trauma From Infancy Through Adolescence: Pain Unspeakable
by Sandra B. Hutchison, 174 pp, $49.95, ISBN 0-7890-0856-4, paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7890-2428-4, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Maltreatment & Trauma Press, 2005.
Estrogen Effects in Psychiatric Disorders
edited by Niels Bergemann and Anita Riecher-Rössler, 291 pp, with illus, $89.95, ISBN 3-211-40485-6, New York, NY, SpringerWienNewYork, 2005.
Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Mental Health
edited by Robin M. Mathy and Shelly K. Kerr, 235 pp, $34.95, ISBN 0-7890-2681-3, paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7890-2682-1, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Press, 2003.
Neurodevelopment and Schizophrenia
by Matcheri Keshavan, James Kennedy, and Robin Murray, 488 pp, with illus, $150, ISBN 0-521-82331-5, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Relationship Therapy With Same-Sex Couples
edited by Jerry J. Bigner and Joseph L. Wetchler, 163 pp, $39.95, ISBN 0-7890-2554-X, paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7890-2555-8, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Press, 2004.
Therapeutic and Legal Issues for Therapists Who Have Survived a Client Suicide: Breaking the Silence
edited by Kayla Miriyam Weiner, 108 pp, $39.95, ISBN 0-7890-2376-8, paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7890-2377-6, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Press, 2005.
Whistling Women: A Study of the Lives of Older Lesbians
by Cheryl Claassen, 284 pp, $44.95, ISBN 0-7890-2412-8, paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7890-2413-6, New York, NY, Haworth Press, 2005.
Public HealthPrison Health and Public Health: The Integration of Prison Health Services: Report From a Conference
(conference, London, England, April 2004), 32 pp, paper, ISBN 0-9535221-8-0, London, England, International Centre for Prison Studies, King’s College, http://www.prisonstudies.org, 2004.
Understanding Health Literacy: Implications for Medicine and Public Health
edited by Joanne G. Schwartzberg, Jonathan B. VanGeest, and Claire C. Wang, 253 pp, paper, $55, ISBN 1-57947-630-9, Chicago, Ill, AMA Press, 2005.
RehabilitationLymphedema Management: The Comprehensive Guide for Practitioners
by Joachim E. Zuther, 270 pp, with illus, $69.95, ISBN 1-58890-284-6, New York, NY, Thieme, 2005.

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