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JAMA. 2006;295(8):941-945. doi:10.1001/jama.295.8.944.
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AnesthesiologyThe American Society of Anesthesiologists: A Century of Challenges and Progress

edited by Douglas R. Bacon, Kathryn E. McGoldrick, and Mark J. Lema, 225 pp, with illus, $55, ISBN 1-889595-15-2, Park Ridge, Ill, Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 2005.
Obstetric Anesthesia Handbook
by Sanjay Datta, 4th ed, 409 pp, with illus, paper, $49.95, ISBN 0-387-26075-7, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Biography, MemoirEvery Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies From Successful Women Scientists
by Ellen Daniell, 268 pp, $27.50, ISBN 0-300-11323-4, New Haven, Conn, Yale University Press, 2006 (about a semiweekly meeting of seven scientists known as “Group”).
On Having a Heart Attack: A Medical Memoir
by William O’Rourke, 151 pp, paper, $18, ISBN 0-268-03726-4, Notre Dame, Ind, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
Solomon Carter Fuller: Where My Caravan Has Rested
by Mary Kaplan, 104 pp, with illus, paper, $25, ISBN 0-7618-3265-3, Lanham, Md, University Press of America, 2005 (neuropathologist and America's first black psychiatrist, 1872-1953).
What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctors
edited by Kevin M. Takakuwa, Nick Rubashkin, and Karen E. Herzig, 209 pp, with illus, paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-520-24681-0, Berkeley, Calif, University of California Press, 2004 (hardcover edition reviewed in JAMA April 28, 2004).
CancerPractical Management of Thyroid Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach
edited by Ernest L. Mazzaferri, Clive Harmer, Ujjal K. Mallick, and Pat Kendall-Taylor, 445 pp, with illus, $149, ISBN 1-85233-910-1, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Understanding Leukemias, Lymphomas and Myelomas
by Tariq I. Mughal, John M. Goldman, and Sabena T. Mughal, 252 pp, with illus, $55, ISBN 1-84184-409-8, New York, NY, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
CardiologyChronic Viral and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy
edited by H.-P. Schultheiss, J.-F. Kapp, and G. Grötzbach (Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop 55, Berlin, Germany, October 2004), 361 pp, with illus, $99, ISBN 3-540-23971-5, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Encyclopedia of Heart Diseases
by M. Gabriel Khan, 653 pp, with illus, $129.95, ISBN 0-12-406061-7, Burlington, Mass, Elsevier Academic Press, 2006.
GastroenterologyThe Epidemiology of Alimentary Diseases
by John M. Duggan and Anne E. Duggan, 251 pp, $109, ISBN 1-4020-3839-9, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Hepatology: Principles and Practice
by Erwin Kuntz and Hans-Dieter Kuntz, 2nd ed, 906 pp, with illus, $169.95, ISBN 3-540-28976-3, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
GeriatricsThe Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies
by Muriel R. Gillick, 332 pp, $25.95, ISBN 0-674-02148-7, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2006.
Geriatric Medicine for Old Age Psychiatrists
by Alistair Burns, Michael Horan, John Clague, and Gillian McLean, 262 pp, $49.99, ISBN 1-84184-393-8, New York, NY, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Meeting the Challenge of Chronic Illness
by Robert L. Kane, Reinhard Priester, and Annette M. Totten, 302 pp, with illus, $55, ISBN 0-8018-8209-5, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Health SystemsHealth Communication
by Richard K. Thomas, 212 pp, $49.95, ISBN 0-387-26115-X, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Healthier Societies: From Analysis to Action
edited by Jody Heymann, Clyde Hertzman, Morris L. Barer, and Robert G. Evans, 417 pp, $55, ISBN 0-19-517920-X, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Hematology35th Hemophilia Symposium: Hamburg 2004
edited by Inge Scharrer and Wolfgang Schramm, 263 pp, with illus, paper, $169, ISBN 3-540-28543-1, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
HistoryThe Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962
by Frank M. Snowden, 296 pp, with illus, $40, ISBN 0-300-10899-0, New Haven, Conn, Yale University Press, 2006.
Dew of Death: The Story of Lewisite, America's World War I Weapon of Mass Destruction
by Joel A. Vilensky with the assistance of Pandy R. Sinish, 213 pp, with illus, $24.95, ISBN 0-253-34612-6, Bloomington, Ind, Indiana University Press, 2005.
Fractured States: Smallpox, Public Health and Vaccination Policy in British India 1800-1947
by Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Mark Harrision, and Michael Worboys (New Perspectives in South Asian History 11), 264 pp, £24.95, ISBN 81-250-2866-8, Hyderabad, India, Orient Longman, cogeneral@orientlongham.com, London, England, Sangham Books Ltd, sangambooksuk@gmail.com, 2005.
Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848
by Linda L. Barnes, 458 pp, with illus, $49.95, ISBN 0-674-01872-9, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2005.
ImmunologyComplement and Kidney Disease
edited by Peter F. Zipfel (Progress in Inflammation Research), 236 pp, with illus, $169, ISBN 3-7643-7166-8, Basel, Switzerland, Birkäuser Verlag, 2006.
The Immune Response: Basic and Clinical Principles
by Tak W. Mak and Mary E. Saunders, includes CD-ROM, 1194 pp, with illus, $139.95, ISBN 0-12-088451-8, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier, 2006.
Principles of Immunopharmacology
edited by Frans P. Nijkamp and Michael J. Parnham, 2nd ed, 662 pp, with illus, soft cover, $99, ISBN 3-7643-5804-1, Basel, Switzerland, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2005.
Infectious DiseaseAntimicrobial Resistance in Bacteria of Animal Origin
edited by Frank M. Aarestrup, 442 pp, with illus, $115.95, ISBN 1-55581-306-2, Washington, DC, ASM Press, 2006.
The Biomedical Scientist as Expert Witness
by Paul D. Ellner, 168 pp, $32.95, ISBN 1-55581-345-3, Washington, DC, ASM Press, 2006 (geared to microbiologists).
MedicineSleep: A Comprehensive Handbook
edited by Teofilo L. Lee-Chiong, 1096 pp, with illus, $175, ISBN 0-471-68371-X, Hoboken, NJ, Wiley-Liss, 2006.
MiscellaneousDirectory of Biomedical and Health Care Grants, With A Guide to Proposal Planning and Writing
by Jeremy T. Miner and Lynn E. Miner, 20th ed, 650 pp, paper, $89.50, ISBN 1-57356-618-7, Westport, Conn, Oryx Press, 1985, 2006.
Resurrecting Langston Blue: A CJ Floyd Mystery
by Robert Greer, 421 pp, $23.95, ISBN 1-58394-136-3, Berkeley, Calif, Frog Ltd, 2005 (Amerasian emergency physician searches for father missing since Viet Nam war; author is surgical pathologist).
The Salem Syndrome: A Novel of Medicine and Law
by Robert H. Bartlett, 331 pp, paper, $14.95, ISBN 1-928623-25-5, Livonia, Mich, First Page Publications, 2005 (pediatric resident confronts allegations of child abuse that may or may not be valid).
Where Is Medicine Heading? Pointers and Directions From Lawsuits Against Industry: Medicine as a Corporate Enterprise, Patient Welfare Centered Profession, or Patient Welfare Centered Professional Enterprise?
by Ajai R. Singh and Shakuntala A. Singh (Mens Sana Monographs , vol 3, Nos. 4-5), 85 pp PDF, bimonthly, single copy, 250 Rs, ISSN 0973-1229, Mumbai, India, Mens Sana Research Foundation, http://mensanamonographs.tripod.com, 2005.
NeurologyHandbook of Neurologic Rating Scales
by Robert M. Herndon, 2nd ed, includes access to free PDFs, 441 pp, $145, ISBN 1-888799-92-7, New York, NY, Demos, 2006.
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
by Eric R. Kandel, 479 pp, with illus, $27.95, ISBN 0-393-05863-8, New York, NY, WW Norton, 2006.
Life and Migraine: A Surprising Documentary About People Whose Lives Were Ruled by Headaches and How They Found Help
written, produced, and directed by Daniel Messina and Edmund Messina, one DVD, includes 27-min broadcast version and 60-min director's cut/full version, $26.45, Life and Migraine LLC, http://www.lifeandmigraine.com, Lansing, Mich, IVT Productions, sales@ivtproductions.com, 2006.
The Sensory Hand: Neural Mechanisms of Somatic Sensation
by Vernon B. Mountcastle, 616 pp, with illus, $85, ISBN 0-674-01974-1, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2005.
OrthopedicsFoot and Ankle in Rheumatoid Arthritis
edited by Maurice Bouysset, Yves Tourné, and Karl Tillmann, 246 pp, with illus, paper, $124, ISBN 2-287-59757-3, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Forefoot Reconstruction
by Louis Samuel Barouk, 2nd ed, includes CD-ROM, 388 pp, with illus, paper, $189, ISBN 2-287-25251-7, New York, NY, Springer, 2005.
Fracture Classifications in Clinical Practice
by Seyed Behrooz Mostofi, 104 pp, with illus, paper, $49.95, ISBN 1-84628-025-7, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
PathologyEssentials of Autopsy Practice: Current Methods and Modern Trends
edited by Guy N. Rutty, 245 pp, with illus, $149, ISBN 1-85233-067-5, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.

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