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JAMA. 2006;295(16):1947-1952. doi:10.1001/jama.295.16.1952.
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Biography, MemoirBryson City Secrets: Even More Tales of a Small-Town Doctor in the Smoky Mountains

by Walt Larimore, 228 pp, $18.99, ISBN 0-310-26633-5, Grand Rapids, Mich, Zondervan, 2006 (family practice memoir using composites and Christian perspective, “culminating with the revelation of the shocking events that caused the [author’s] family to leave” their town; third in a trilogy).
Past Truth and Present Poetry: Medical Discoveries and the People Behind Them
by Richard J. Bing, 130 pp, with illus, paper, $35, ISBN 1-903378-44-3, Harley, Shrewsbury, UK, tfm Publishing, 2006 (28 articles in the title series that appeared in the Society for Heart Research newsletter Heart News and Views).
CancerBreast Cancer
edited by David J. Winchester, David P. Winchester, Clifford A. Hudis, and Larry Norton, 2nd ed (Atlas of Clinical Oncology), includes CD-ROM, 607 pp, with illus, $149, ISBN 1-55009-272-3, Hamilton, Ontario, BC Decker, 2006.
Textbook of Bladder Cancer
edited by Seth P. Lerner, Mark P. Schoenberg, and Cora N. Sternberg, 786 pp, with illus, $299.95, ISBN 1-84184-382-2, New York, NY, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
EthicsThe Case of Terri Schiavo: Ethics at the End of Life
edited by Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney, and Dominic A. Sisti, 352 pp, paper, $21, ISBN 1-59102-398-X, Amherst, NY, Prometheus Books, 2006.
Contemporary Issues in Bioethics: A Catholic Perspective
by James J. Walter and Thomas A. Shannon, 293 pp, $65, ISBN 0-7425-5060-5, paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-7425-5061-3, Lanham, Md, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
GeneticsComing to Life: How Genes Drive Development
by Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, with illus by the author, 166 pp, $29.95, ISBN 0-9670076-7-4, Carlsbad, Calif, Kales Press, 2006 (by 1995 Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate).
Medical Genetics
by Lynn B. Jorde, John C. Carey, Michael J. Bamshad, and Raymond L. White, 3rd ed, 363 pp, with illus, includes online access, paper, $56.95, ISBN 0-323-04035-7, Philadelphia, Pa, Mosby Elsevier, 2006.
The Strongest Boy in the World: How Genetic Information Is Reshaping Our Lives
by Philip R. Reilly, 278 pp, with illus, $29, ISBN 087969801-2, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2006.
Williams-Beuren Syndrome: Research, Evaluation, and Treatment
edited by Colleen A. Morris, Howard M. Lenhoff, and Paul P. Wang, 366 pp, with illus, $75, ISBN 0-8018-8212-5, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Health SystemsHandbook of Health Social Work
edited by Sarah Gehlert and Teri Arthur Browne, 747 pp, with illus, $75, ISBN 0-471-71431-3, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
Strategic Management of the Health Care Supply Chain
by Eugene S. Schneller and Larry R. Smeltzer, 305 pp, $60, ISBN 0-7879-8039-0, San Francisco, Calif, Jossey-Bass, 2006.
Infectious DiseaseChina Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic
by Karl Taro Greenfeld, 442 pp, $25.95, ISBN 0-06-058722-9, New York, NY, HarperCollinsPublishers, 2006 (by the editor of Time Asia during the 2003 SARS virus outbreak).
Medical Microbiology and Immunology Flash Cards
by Ken S. Rosenthal, 198 boxed double-sided 4 x 6-inch cards with color illustrations, includes online access, paper, $34.95, ISBN 0-323-03392-X, Philadelphia, Pa, Mosby Elsevier, 2006.
Medical Microbiology
by William Irving, Tim Boswell, and Dlawer Ala’Aldeen (BIOS Instant Notes), 350 pp, with illus, paper, $33.95, ISBN 1-85996-254-8, New York, NY, Taylor & Francis, 2005.
Problem-Based Microbiology
by Swapan K. Nath and Sanjay G. Revankar, 524 pp, with illus, paper, $39.95, ISBN 0-7216-0630-X, Philadelphia, Pa, Saunders Elsevier, 2006.
MiscellaneousThe Boy in the Bubble
produced and directed Barak Goodman and John Maggio, 53 min, airing on American Experience/PBS, April 10, 2006, Boston, Mass, American Experience, 2006. (Program concerns child with SCID cared for at Texas Children's Hospital who lived in an isolator, 1971-1984.)
Hospital for Special Surgery Manual of Rheumatology and Outpatient Orthopedic Disorders: Diagnosis and Therapy
edited by Stephen A. Paget, Allan Gibofsky, John F. Beary III, and Thomas P. Sculco, 5th ed, 582 pp, with illus, paper, $44.95, ISBN 0-7817-6300-2, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
We All Fall Down: Goldratt's Theory of Constraints for Healthcare Systems
by Julie Wright and Russ King, 353 pp, with illus, paper, $27.50, ISBN 0-88427-181-1, Greater Barrington, Mass, North River Press Publishing, 2006 (“business novel” follows a British National Health Service administrator).
PathologyPocket Companion to Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 7th Edition
edited by Richard N. Mitchell, Vinay Kumar, Abul K. Abbas, and Nelson Fausto, 7th ed, with illustrations by James A. Perkins, 801 pp, with illus, paper, $34.95, ISBN 0-7216-0265-7, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Saunders, 2006.
PediatricsInpatient Pediatrics: The Philadelphia Guide
edited by Gary Frank, Samir S. Shah, Marina Catallozzi, and Lisa B. Zaoutis, 461 pp, with illus, paper, $37.95, ISBN 1-4051-0428-7, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003.
When Treatment Fails: How Medicine Cares for Dying Children
by David J. Bearison, 289 pp, $29.95, ISBN 0-19-515612-9, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Pharmacology-TherapeuticsThe Top 100 Drug Interactions: A Guide to Patient Management: 2006 Edition
by Philip D. Hansten and John R. Horn, 226 pp, paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-9674718-7-7, Freeland, Wash, H&H Publications, 2006.
Public HealthThe Global Gun Epidemic: From Saturday Night Specials to AK-47s
by Wendy Cukier and Victor W. Sidel, 310 pp, with illus, $49.95, ISBN 0-275-98256-4, Westport, Conn, Praeger Security International, 2006.
RadiotherapyImage-Guided IMRT
edited by Thomas Bortfeld, Rupert Schmidt-Ullrich, Wilfried De Neve, and David E. Wazer, 460 pp, with illus, $199, ISBN 3-540-20511-X, New York, NY, Springer, 2006 (intensity-modulated radiation therapy).
Women's HealthHot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America
by Judith A. Houck, 328 pp, $39.95, ISBN 0-674-01896-6, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2006.

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