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JAMA. 2006;295(20):2415-2420. doi:10.1001/jama.295.20.2420.
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GeneticsManagement of Prader-Willi Syndrome

edited by Merlin G. Butler, Phillip D. K. Lee, and Barbara Y. Whitman, 3rd ed, 550 pp, with illus, $99, ISBN 0-387-25397-1, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
GeriatricsGrowing Older in World Cities: New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo
edited by Victor G. Rodwin and Michael K. Gusmano, 396 pp, with illus, $79.95, ISBN 0-8265-1489-8, paper, $39.95, ISBN 0-8265-1490-1, Nashville, Tenn, Vanderbilt University Press, 2006.
HistoryBirthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South
by Marie Jenkins Schwartz, 390 pp, $29.95, ISBN 0-674-02202-5, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2006.
NutritionNutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention
edited by Norman J. Temple, Ted Wilson, and David R. Jacobs, Jr, 2nd ed (Nutrition and Health), 465 pp, with illus, $99.50, ISBN 1-58829-454-4, Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2006.
Scientific Evidence for Musculoskeletal, Bariatric, and Sports Nutrition
by Ingrid Kohlstadt, 621 pp, with illus, $139.95, ISBN 0-8493-3724-0, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2006.
OphthalmologyEvaluation and Treatment of Orbital Fractures: A Multidisciplinary Approach
by David E. E. Holck and John D. Ng, 509 pp, with illus, $125, ISBN 0-7216-8756-3, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Saunders, 2006.
A Manual of Systematic Eyelid Surgery
by J. R. O. Collin, 3rd ed, 254 pp, with illus, paper, $69.95, ISBN 0-7506-4550-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann, 2006.
Pharmacology-TherapeuticsHardcore Pharmacology
by Rodrigo E. Saenz, Benjamin W. Sears, and Paul A. Dabisch, 175 pp, with illus, paper, $26.95, ISBN 1-4051-0454-6, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
Pharmacology
by Richard D. Howland and Mary J. Mycek, 3rd ed (Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews), 552 pp, with illus, paper, $44.95, ISBN 0-7817-4118-1, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
PhysiologyAdrenaline and the Inner World: An Introduction to Scientific Integrative Medicine
by David S. Goldstein, 309 pp, with illus, $65, ISBN 0-8018-8289-3, paper, $25, ISBN 0-8018-8289-3, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Space Physiology
by Jay C. Buckey, Jr, 283 pp, with illus, $59.95, ISBN 0-19-513725-6, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2006.
PsychiatryThe American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Schizophrenia
edited by Jeffrey A. Lieberman, T. Scott Stroup, and Diana O. Perkins, 435 pp, with illus, $95, ISBN 1-58562-191-9, Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2006.
The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management
by Robert I. Simon and Robert E. Hales, 660 pp, $85, ISBN 1-58562-213-3, Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2006.
Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class
by Ronald W. Dworkin, 327 pp, $24.95, ISBN 0-7867-1714-9, New York, NY, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006.
Is It Me or My Meds? Living With Antidepressants
by David A. Karp, 280 pp, $25.95, ISBN 0-674-02182-7, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2006 (sociologist's exploration of what it means to be on antidepressant medication based on interviews of 50 persons taking such medications).
School Sport Psychology: Perspectives, Programs, and Procedures
by Charles A. Maher, 194 pp, $44.95, ISBN 0-7890-1948-5, paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7890-1949-3, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Press, 2005.
Social Neuroscience: People Thinking About Thinking People
edited by John T. Cacioppo, Penny S. Visser, and Cynthia L. Pickett (Social Neuroscience series), 304 pp, with illus, $45, ISBN 0-262-03335-6, Cambridge, Mass, A Bradford Book/MIT Press, 2006.
Pulmonology-RespirologyBronchial Asthma: A Guide for Practical Understanding and Treatment
edited by M. Eric Gershwin and Timothy E. Albertson (Current Clinical Practice), 5th ed, 405 pp, with illus, $125, ISBN 1-58829-604-0, Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2006.
High-Yield Lung
by Ronald W. Dudek (High-Yield Systems), 143 pp, with illus, paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-7817-5570-0, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
Kendig's Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children
edited by Victor Chernick, Thomas F. Boat, Robert W. Wilmott, and Andrew Bush, 7th ed, 1111 pp, with illus, $249, ISBN 0-7216-3695-0, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Saunders, 2006.
ReferenceMEDLINE: A Guide to Effective Searching in PubMed and Other Interfaces
by Brian S. Katcher, 2nd ed, 136 pp, paper, $31.95, ISBN 0-9673445-1-4, San Francisco, Calif, Ashbury Press, 2006.
ResearchClinical Evaluation of Medical Devices: Principles and Case Studies
edited by Karen M. Becker and John J. Whyte, 2nd ed, 346 pp, with illus, $145, ISBN 1-58829-422-6, Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2006.
Sexuality, GenderMale-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships
by William Benemann, 322 pp, $39.95, ISBN 1-56023-344-3, paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-56023-345-1, Binghamton, NY, Harrington Park Press/Haworth Press, 2006.
Medicalized Masculinities
edited by Dana Rosenfeld and Christopher A. Faircloth, 263 pp, with illus, paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-59213-098-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Temple University Press, 2006 (“examin[ation of] the male body in relation to the sociology of health and gender”).
Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West
edited by Beert C. Verstraete and Vernon Provencal, 491 pp, with illus, $69.95, ISBN 1-56023-603-5, paper, $49.95, ISBN 1-56023-604-3, Binghamton, NY, Harrington Park Press/Haworth Press, 2005.
Sports-ExerciseFootball Traumatology—Current Concepts: From Prevention to Treatment
edited by Piero Volpi, 419 pp, with illus, $89.95, ISBN 88-470-0418-7, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
SurgeryHigh-Yield Surgery
by R. Nirula, 2nd ed, 149 pp, with illus, paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7817-7656-2, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
Introduction to Spine Surgery: Essentials for ORP, Fellows, and Residents
edited by Sue Corbett (AOSpine International), 282 pp, with illus, $79.95, ISBN 1-58890-469-5, New York, NY, Thieme, 2006.
Mastering Revision Rhinoplasty
by Michael Evan Sachs, 394 pp, with illus, $249, ISBN 0-387-98904-8, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Women's HealthA Seat on the Aisle, Please! The Essential Guide to Urinary Tract Problems in Women
by Elizabeth Kavaler, 396 pp, with illus, $27.50, ISBN 0-387-95509-7, New York, NY, Copernicus Books/Springer, 2006.

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