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JAMA. 2006;295(17):2079-2084. doi:10.1001/jama.295.17.2083-b.
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BiochemistryPrinciples of Medical Biochemistry

by Gerhard Meisenberg and William H. Simmons, 2nd ed, 678 pp, with illus, includes online access, paper, $59.95, ISBN 0-323-02942-6, Philadelphia, Pa, Mosby Elsevier, 2006.
CardiologyPhysiology of the Heart
by Arnold M. Katz, 4th ed, 644 pp, with illus, $99, ISBN 0-7817-5501-8, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
Transcatheter Valve Repair
by Ziyad M. Hijazi, Philipp Bonhoeffer, Ted Feldman, and Carlos E. Ruiz, 382 pp, with illus, $169.95, ISBN 1-84184-472-1, New York, NY, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
The Virtual Cardiac Patient: A Multimedia Guide to Heart Sounds and Murmurs
by Jonathan Keroes and David Lieberman, one CD-ROM, for Windows XP and MacIntosh OSX or later, $149, ISBN 0-7817-8442-5, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006 (headphones required).
DermatologyContact Dermatitis
edited by P. J. Frosch, T. Menné, and J.-P. Lepoittevin, 4th ed, includes CD-ROM, 1136 pp, with illus, $259, ISBN 3-540-24471-9, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Injectable Fillers in Aesthetic Medicine
by Mauricio de Maio and Berthold Rzany, 86 pp, with illus, $139, ISBN 3-540-23941-3, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
HistoryA History of Old Age
edited by Pat Thane, 320 pp, with illus, $49.95, ISBN 0-89236-834-9, Los Angeles, Calif, J. Paul Getty Museum, London, England, Thames & Hudson, 2005.
Medicine in Quotations: Views of Health and Disease Through the Ages
edited by Edward J. Huth and T. Jock Murray, 2nd ed, 581 pp, $52, members $47, ISBN 1-930513-67-4, Philadelphia, Pa, American College of Physicians, 2006.
Quackery and Commerce in Seventeenth-Century London: The Proprietary Medicine Business of Anthony Daffy
edited by David Boyd Haycock and Patrick Wallis (Medical History, Supplement No. 25), 216 pp, with illus, $64, ISBN 0-85484-101-6, London, England, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2005.
Science and Technology in Medicine: An Illustrated Account Based on Ninety-Nine Landmark Publications From Five Centuries
by Andras Gedeon, 551 pp, with illus, $89.95, ISBN 0-387-27874-5, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II
by Kathi Jackson, 211 pp, with illus, paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-0832-7627-3, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2000, paperback edition 2006.
ImagingAdvanced Imaging of the Abdomen
by Jovitas Skucas, 1079 pp, with illus, $399, ISBN 1-85233-992-6, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
MedicineFerri's Differential Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to the Differential Diagnosis of Symptoms, Signs, and Clinical Disorders
by Fred F. Ferri, 378 pp, soft cover, $21.95, ISBN 0-323-04093-4, St Louis, Mo, Mosby Elsevier, 2006.
Griffith's 5-Minute Clinical Consult 2006
by Mark R. Dambro, includes CD-ROM, 1644 pp, $69.95, ISBN 0-7817-7791-7, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
Internship Survival Guide
edited by Grace A. Lin, Tammy L. Lin, and Kaori A. Sakurai, 2nd ed, 235 pp, with illus, paper, $27.95, ISBN 0-7817-8645-2, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006 (internal medicine).
Listening in Medicine: The Whiplash Mystery and Other Tales
by Michael Livingston, 220 pp, paper, $21.45, ISBN 141207169-0, Victoria, British Columbia, Trafford Publishing, 2005.
NutritionHandbook of Clinical Nutrition
by Douglas C. Heimburger and Jamy D. Ard, 4th ed, 645 pp, with illus, spiral-bound, $42.95, ISBN 0-323-03952-9, Philadelphia, Pa, Mosby Elsevier, 2006.
Obstetrics-GynecologyGlass' Office Gynecology
by Michèle G. Curtis, Shelley Overholt, and Michael P. Hopkins, 6th ed, 682 pp, with illus, $89.95, ISBN 0-7817-4250-1, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
On Call Obstetrics and Gynecology
by Homer G. Chin, 3rd ed, 428 pp, with illus, paper, $34.95, ISBN 1-4160-2394-1, Philadelphia, Pa, Saunders Elsevier, 2006.
Practical Guide to Female Pelvic Medicine
edited by Gamal Ghoniem and G. Willy Davila, 271 pp, with illus, $99.95, ISBN 1-84184-398-9, New York, NY, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
OrthopedicsHuman Walking
by Jessica Rose and James G. Gamble, 3rd ed, 234 pp, with illus, $79.95, ISBN 0-7817-5954-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
Practice of Intramedullary Locked Nails: New Developments in Techniques and Applications
edited by Kwok-Sui Leung, Gilbert Taglang, and Reinhard Schnettler, 308 pp, with illus, $199, ISBN 3-540-25349-1, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
PathologyFine Needle Aspiration Cytology: Diagnostic Principles and Dilemmas
by Gabrijela Kocjan, 239 pp, with illus, $189, ISBN 3-540-25639-3, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths
by Stefan Timmermans, 356 pp, $30, ISBN 0-226-80398-8, Chicago, Ill, University of Chicago Press, 2006, (sociologic field study and analysis).
Public HealthForgotten Families: Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy
by Jody Heymann, 306 pp, with illus, $27.50, ISBN 0-19-515659-5, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2006.
Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-smoking Campaigns in California, France, and Japan
by Roddey Reid (Tracking Globalization), 310 pp, with illus, $65, ISBN 0-253-34667-3, paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-253-21809-8, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005.
The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services 2005: Recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
175 pp, paper, single copies gratis, ACP Product #330351030, Washington, DC, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Philadelphia, Pa, American College of Physicians, 2005 (pocket guide with abridged USPSTF recommendations released from 2001 to 2004).
The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health: A Practitioner's Guide to Service
edited by Michael D. Shankle, 373 pp, $69.95, ISBN 1-56023-495-4, paper, $39.95, ISBN 1-56023-496-2, Binghamton, NY, Harrington Park Press, 2006.
Pulmonology-RespirologyDiffuse Lung Diseases: Clinical Features, Pathology, HRCT
edited by Mario Maffessanti and Giorgia Dalpiaz, 241 pp, with illus, paper, $119, ISBN 88-470-0429-2, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Practical Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine: Disease Management
edited by Zab Mosenifar and Guy W. Soo Hoo (Lung Biology in Health and Disease, vol 214), 648 pp, with illus, $199.95, ISBN 0-8247-2597-2, New York, NY, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Practical Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine: Respiratory Failure
edited by Zab Mosenifar and Guy W. Soo Hoo (Lung Biology in Health and Disease, vol 213), 417 pp, with illus, $169.95, ISBN 0-8493-6663-1, New York, NY, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
ReproductionAtlas of Human Female Reproductive Function: Ovarian Development to Early Embryogenesis After In Vitro Fertilization
by Sayoko Makabe and Jonathan Van Blerkom, 180 pp, with illus, $129.95, ISBN 1-84214-121-X, New York, NY, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
SurgeryEssentials of Surgery
by James M. Becker and Arthur F. Stucchi, 841 pp, with illus, paper, $49.95, ISBN 0-7216-8186-7, Philadelphia, Pa, Saunders Elsevier, 2006.

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