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JAMA. 2005;293(16):2035-2039. doi:10.1001/jama.293.16.2038.
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Biography, MemoirBarebones: A Surgeon’s Tale: The Price of Success in American Medicine

by Augusto Sarmiento with Mark Dorfman, 379 pp, with illus, $32, ISBN 1-59102-049-2, Amherst, NY, Prometheus Books, 2003.
CancerMolecular Basis of Thyroid Cancer
edited by Nadir R. Farid (Cancer Treatment and Research), 444 pp, with illus, $150, ISBN 1-4020-8106-5, Boston, Mass, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.
EndocrinologyEndocrinology Subspecialty Consult
edited by Katherine E. Henderson, Thomas J. Baranski, and Perry E. Bickel (The Washington Manual Subspecialty Consult Series), 234 pp, paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-7817-4378-8, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
Werner & Ingbar’s The Thyroid: A Fundamental and Clinical Text
edited by Lewis E. Braverman and Robert D. Utiger, 9th ed, 1166 pp, with illus, $229, ISBN 0-7817-5047-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
Environmental HealthOutgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures
by Lester R. Brown, 238 pp, with illus, paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-393-32725-6, New York, NY, WW Norton & Co, 2004.
Health SystemsFalling Through the Safety Net: Americans Without Health Insurance
by John Geyman, 222 pp, with illus, $29.95, ISBN 1-56751-255-0, paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-56751-254-2, Monroe, Me, Common Courage Press, 2005.
Prescription for a Healthy Nation: A New Approach to Improving Our Lives by Fixing Our Everyday World
by Tom Farley and Deborah A. Cohen, 274 pp, $24.95, ISBN 0-8070-2116-4, Boston, Mass, Beacon Press, 2005.
Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination
edited by Arachu Castro and Merrill Singer, 387 pp, paper, $36.95, ISBN 0-7591-0511-1, Walnut Creek, Calif, AltaMira Press, 2004.
HistoryMultiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease
by T. Jock Murray, 580 pp, with illus, paper, $29.95, ISBN 1-888799-80-3, New York, NY, Demos, 2005.
ImagingClinical MR Neuroimaging: Diffusion, Perfusion and Spectroscopy
edited by Jonathan Gillard, Adam Waldman, and Peter Barker, 827 pp, with illus, $330, ISBN 0-521-82457-5, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Diagnostic Imaging: Head and Neck
by H. Ric Harnsberger, Richard H. Wiggins III, and Patricia A. Hudgins, et al, 993 pp, with illus, $225, ISBN 0-7216-2890-7, Salt Lake City, Utah, Amirsys, 2004.
A Practical Approach to Transesophageal Echocardiography PDA
by Paul G. Barash, Albert C. Perrino, Jr, Scott T. Reeves, Sue Garwood, and Murali Sivarajan, one CD-ROM compatible with Palm and Pocket PC/Windows CE devices and operating systems, $79.95, ISBN 0-7817-4349-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
The Transparent Body: A Cultural Analysis of Medical Imaging
by José Van Dijck [final due May 2005] (In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science), 193 pp, with illus, paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-295-98490-2, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2005.
MiscellaneousLippincott Williams & Wilkins’ Comprehensive Medical Assisting
by Elizabeth A. Molle, Judy Kronenberger, Laura Southard Durham, and Connie West-Stack, 2nd ed, includes CD-ROM and online tutoring, 1109 pp, with illus, $63.95, ISBN 0-7817-3771-0, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
Munchausen by Proxy: Identification, Intervention, and Case Management
by Louisa J. Lasher and Mary S. Sheridan, 353 pp, $59.95, ISBN 0-7890-1217-0, paper, $39.95, ISBN 0-7890-1218-0, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Maltreatment & Trauma Press, 2004.
State of the World 2005: Redefining Global Security
by project directors Michael Renner, Hilary French, and Erik Assadourian (The Worldwatch Institute), 237 pp, with illus, paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-393-32666-7, New York, NY, WW Norton & Co, 2005.
Molecular MedicineHypertension: Methods and Protocols
edited by Jérôme P. Fennell and Andrew H. Baker (Methods in Molecular Medicine), 501 pp, with illus, $135, ISBN 1-588-29-323-8, Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2005.
OrthopedicsThe Cervical Spine
edited by Charles R. Clark, 4th ed (The Cervical Spine Research Society), 1250 pp, with illus, $249, ISBN 0-7817-3576-9, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
Total Ankle Arthroplasty: Historical Overview, Current Concepts and Future Perspectives
by Beat Hintermann, 195 pp, with illus, $179, ISBN 3-211-21252-3, New York, NY, SpringerWienNewYork, 2005.
Primary CareField Guide to Fracture Management
by Richard B. Birrer and Robert L. Kalb, 136 pp, with illus, paper, $34.95, ISBN 0-7817-3536-X, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
Field Guide to Internal Medicine
by David S. Smith, Lynn E. Sullivan, and Seonaid F. Hay, 434 pp, with illus, paper, $34.95, ISBN 0-7817-2828-2, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
PsychiatryResearch Advances in Genetics and Genomics: Implications for Psychiatry
edited by Nancy C. Andreasen, 140 pp, with illus, paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-58562-200-1, Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2005.
Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families
edited by John G. Gunderson and Perry D. Hoffman, 171 pp, paper, $27.95, ISBN 1-58562-135-8, Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2005.
Public HealthCommunity-Based Health Organizations: Advocating for Improved Health
by Marcia Bayne Smith, Yvonne J. Graham, and Sally Guttmacher, 362 pp, with illus, paper, $45, ISBN 0-7879-6486-7, San Francisco, Calif, Jossey-Bass, 2005.
The Guide to Community Preventive Services: What Works to Promote Health?
edited by Stephanie Zaza, Peter A. Briss, and Kate W. Harris (Task Force on Community Preventive Services), 506 pp, paper, $35, ISBN 0-19-515109-7, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2005.
Health Research in Developing Countries: A Collaboration Between Burkina Faso and Germany
edited by Heiko Becher and Bocar Kouyaté, 308 pp, with illus, $99, ISBN 3-540-23796-8, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
Medical Response to Terrorism: Preparedness and Clinical Practice
edited by Daniel C. Keyes, Jonathan L. Burstein, Richard B. Schwartz, and Raymond E. Swienton, 449 pp, with illus, $99, ISBN 0-7817-4986-7, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
Reference¡A Su Salud! Spanish for Health Professionals
by Christine E. Cotton, Elizabeth Ely Tolman, and Julia Cardona Mack (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), includes 376 pp-workbook, two DVDs, and one CD-ROM, spiral-bound, $95, ISBN 0-300-10363-8, New Haven, Conn, Yale University Press, 2005.
RehabilitationCerebral Palsy
edited by Freeman Miller, illustrations by Erin Browne, includes CD-ROM, 1055 pp, with illus, $399, ISBN 0-387-20437-7, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag, 2005.
Low Back Disorders: A Medical Enigma
by Rene Cailliet, 148 pp, with illus, paper, $34.95, ISBN 0-7817-4448-2, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003.
StatisticsThe Statistical Evaluation of Medical Tests for Classification and Prediction
by Margaret Sullivan Pepe (Oxford Statistical Science Series, No. 31), 302 pp, with illus, paper, $74.50, ISBN 0-19-856582-8, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2003.
Studying a Study and Testing a Test: How to Read the Medical Evidence
by Richard K. Riegelman, 5th ed, 403 pp, with illus, paper, $39.95, ISBN 0-7817-4576-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005.
SurgeryAtlas of Liposuction
by Tolbert S. Wilkinson, 361 pp, with illus, $169, ISBN 0-7216-9422-5, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Saunders, 2005.
Color Atlas of Cosmetic Oculofacial Surgery
by William P. D. Chen, Jemshed A. Khan, and Clinton D. McCord, Jr, 302 pp, with illus, $149, ISBN 0-7506-7422-9, Philadelphia, Pa, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004.
The Human Hippocampus: Functional Anatomy, Vascularization and Serial Sections With MRI
by Henri M. Duvernoy, 3rd ed, 232 pp, with illus, $199, ISBN 3-540-23191-9, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag, 2005.

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