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JAMA. 2006;296(6):704-709. doi:10.1001/jama.296.6.708.
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AnatomyEssential Clinical Anatomy

by Keith L. Moore and Anne M. R. Agur, 3rd ed (The Point), includes access to http://thePoint.lww.com, 692 pp, with illus, paper, $59.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7817-6274-8, ISBN-10 0-7817-6274-X, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
Biography, MemoirChildren First: An Inside Look at the Growing Changes in Children's Healthcare and Hospitals
by Albert H. Wilkinson, Jr, 118 pp, with illus, paper, $14.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7414-2913-1, ISBN-10 0-7414-2913-6, West Conshohocken, Pa, Infinity Publishing.com, 2005 (memoir by pediatric surgeon of his career and the creation of children's regional health care system and hospital in Jacksonville, Fla).
Science Has No Sex: The Life of Maria Zakrzewska, MD [1829-1902]
by Arleen Marcia Tuchman (Studies in Social Medicine), 336 pp, with illus, $34.95, ISBN-13 978-0-8078-3020-8, ISBN-10 0-8078-3020-8, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
CancerThe Breast Cancer Epidemic: An Unbiased and Comprehensive Report on Biomedical Science and Clinical Practice
by Dwight Thomas, 711 pp, with illus, paper, $40, ISBN-13 978-0-9743892-1-9, ISBN-10 0-9743892-1-8, Savannah, Ga, Monterey Square Press, 2006.
Childhood Leukemias
by Ching-Hon Pui, 2nd ed, 960 pp, with illus, $230, ISBN-13 978-0-521-82519-1, ISBN-10 0-521-82519-9, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
DermatologyConsultations in Dermatology: Studies of Orphan and Unique Patients
by Walter B. Shelley and E. Dorinda Shelley, 206 pp, paper, $39.99, ISBN-13 978-0-521-61658-4, ISBN-10 0-521-61658-1, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Pocket Guide for Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery
by Joshua E. Lane, 237 pp, with illus, paper, $24.99, ISBN-13 978-0-521-61813-7, ISBN-10 0-521-61813-4, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
EducationAchieving Excellence in Medical Education
by Richard B. Gunderman, 179 pp, $129, ISBN-13 978-1-84628-296-6, ISBN-10 1-84628-296-9, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
HistoryHuman Remains: Dissection and Its Histories
by Helen MacDonald, 220 pp, with illus, $35, ISBN-13 978-0-300-11699-1, ISBN-10 0-300-11699-3, New Haven, Conn, Yale University Press, 2006.
Reconceiving the Gene: Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics
by Frederic Lawrence Holmes, edited by William C. Summers, 334 pp, with illus, $50, ISBN-13 978-0-300-11078-4, ISBN-10 0-300-11078-2, New Haven, Conn, Yale University Press, 2006.
ImmunologyImmune Crossover II: The Two Faces of Immunity, The Lost Environment
by Enrique Rewald, 130 pp, with illus, paper, $14.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7552-0204-1, ISBN 0-7552-0204-X, Hertford, England, Authors on Line, 2005.
MiscellaneousBeyond Peleliu
by Peter Baird, 252 pp, $34, ISBN-13 978-1-893660-12-0, ISBN-10 1-893660-12-5, Tucson, Ariz, Ravenhawk Books, 2006 (novel of young surgeon's catastrophic experience during the World War II Battle of Peleliu and sequelae, including small-town practice).
The Effects of Estrogen on Brain Function
edited by Natalie L. Rasgon, 170 pp, with illus, $49.95, ISBN-13 978-0-8018-8282-1, ISBN-10 0-8018-8282-6, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
International Travel Health Guide 2006-2007
by Stuart R. Rose and Jay S. Keystone, 13th ed, 762 pp, paper, $24.95, ISBN-13 9-7803-2304-0501, ISBN-10 0-323-04050-0, Philadelphia, Pa, Mosby Elsevier, 2006.
The Mephisto Club
by Tess Gerritsen, 344 pp, $24.95, ISBN 0-345-47699-9, New York, NY, Ballantine Books 2006 (sixth in the mystery series featuring Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli; author formerly practiced internal medicine).
Whiplash-Associated Diseases
by Rene Cailliet, 152 pp, with illus, paper, $59.95, members $44.95, ISBN-13 978-1-57947-774-5, ISBN-10 1-57947-774-7, Chicago, Ill, American Medical Association, 2006.
Molecular MedicineRedox Proteomics: From Protein Modifications to Cellular Dysfunction and Diseases
edited by Isabella Dalle-Donne, Andrea Scaloni, and D. Allan Butterfield (Wiley-Interscience Series on Mass Spectrometry), 944 pp, with illus, $160, ISBN-13 978-0-471-72345-5, ISBN-10 0-471-72345-2, Hoboken, NJ, Wiley-Interscience, 2006.
NeurologyBrain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change
by Bruce E. Wexler, 307 pp, with illus, $34, ISBN-13 978-0-262-23248-7, ISBN-10 0-262-23248-0, Cambridge, Mass, A Bradford Book/MIT Press, 2006.
The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Stroke: Cognitive, Behavioral, and Emotional Disorders Following Vascular Brain Injury
by Robert G. Robinson, 2nd ed, 470 pp, with illus, $150, ISBN-13 978-0-521-84007-1, ISBN-10 0-521-84007-4, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Neurological Therapeutics: Principles and Practice, vols 1-3
edited by John H. Noseworthy, 2nd ed, 3490 pp, with illus, $499.95, ISBN-13 978-1-84184-583-8, ISBN-10 1-84184-583-3, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, Informa Healthcare, New York, NY, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Nuclear MedicinePhysics and Radiobiology of Nuclear Medicine
by Gopal B. Saha, 3rd ed, 320 pp, with illus, $69.95, ISBN-13 978-0-387-30754-1, ISBN-10 0-387-30754-0, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Obstetrics-GynecologyUrogynecology: Evidence-Based Clinical Practice
by Kate H. Moore, 176 pp, with illus, paper, $39.95, ISBN-13 978-1-84628-164-8, ISBN-10 1-84628-164-4, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
OphthalmologyThe Ophthalmic Assistant: A Text for Allied and Associated Ophthalmic Personnel
by Harold A. Stein, Raymond M. Stein, and Melvin I. Freeman, 8th ed, 871 pp, with illus, paper, $74.95, ISBN-13 978-0-323-03330-5, ISBN-10 0-323-03330-X, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Mosby, 2006.
PainClinical Management of the Elderly Patient in Pain
edited by Gary McCleane and Howard Smith, 304 pp, $59.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7890-2619-4, ISBN-10 0-7890-2619-8, paper, $34.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7890-2620-0, ISBN-10 0-7890-2620-1, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Medical Press, 2006.
Decision Making in Pain Management
by Somayaji Ramamurthy, James N. Rogers, and Euleche Alanmanou, 2nd ed, 366 pp, with illus, $79.95, ISBN-13 978-0-323-01974-3, ISBN-10 0-323-01974-9, Philadelphia, Pa, Mosby Elsevier, 2006.
PediatricsBringing Pain Relief to Children: Treatment Approaches
edited by G. Allen Finley, Patrick J. McGrath, and Christine T. Chambers, 240 pp, with illus, $89.50, ISBN-13 978-1-58829-628-3, ISBN-10 1-58829-628-8, Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2006.
Cystic Fibrosis: The Ultimate Teen Guide
by Melanie Ann Apel (It Happened to Me, No. 14), 259 pp, with illus, $42, ISBN-13 978-0-8108-4821-4, ISBN-10 0-8108-4821-X, Lanham, Md, Scarecrow Press, 2006.
More Than a Mom: Living a Full and Balanced Life When Your Child Has Special Needs
by Amy Baskin and Heather Fawcett, 487 pp, paper, $18.95, ISBN-13 978-1-890627-51-5, ISBN-10 1-890627-51-8, Bethesda, Md, Woodbine House, 2006.
Neurology of Hereditary Metabolic Diseases of Children
by Gilles Lyon, Edwin H. Kolodny, and Gregory M. Pastores, 3rd ed, 542 pp, with illus, $159, ISBN-13 978-0-07-144508-5, ISBN-10 0-07-144508-0, Philadelphia, Pa, McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing Division, 2006.
PhysiologyCell Physiology
by David Landowne (Lange Physiology Series), 154 pp, with illus, paper, $34.95, ISBN-13 978-0-07-146474-1, ISBN-10 0-07-146474-3, New York, NY, Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Public HealthDistrict Laboratory Practice in Tropical Countries, Part 2
by Monica Cheesbrough, 2nd ed (Tropical Health Technology), 434 pp, with illus, paper, $90, ISBN-13 978-0-521-67631-1, ISBN-10 0-521-67631-2, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Guidelines for Safe Recreational Water Environments, vol 2: Swimming Pools and Similar Environments
118 pp, paper, $63, ISBN-13 978-92-4-154680-5,ISBN-10 92-4-154680-8, Geneva, Switzerland, World Health Organization, 2006.
Surveillance of Tuberculosis in Europe—EuroTB: Report on Tuberculosis Cases Notified in 2004
by EuroTB and the National Coordinators for Tuberculosis Surveillance in the WHO Region, 112 pp, with illus, ISSN 1635-270x, Saint-Maurice, France, Institut de Veille Sanitaire, http://www.invs.sante.fr, 2006.
Pulmonology-RespirologyMcGraw-Hill's Pocket Guide to Lung Function Tests: Explanations Without Equations
by Bob Hancox and Ken Whyte, 2nd ed, 176 pp, with illus, paper, $47.70, ISBN-13 978-0-074-71596-3, ISBN-10 0-074-71596-8, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 2006.
RheumatologyThe Hereditary Basis of Rheumatic Diseases
edited by Rikard Holmdahl (Progress in Inflammation Research), 178 pp, with illus, $159, ISBN-13 978-3-7643-7201-9, ISBN-10 3-7643-7201-X, Basel, Switzerland, Birkhäuser Verlag, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Sports-ExerciseClinical Sports Nutrition
edited by Louise Burke and Vicki Deakin, 3rd ed, 822 pp, with illus, paper, $75.57, ISBN-13 978-007471602-1, ISBN-10 007471602-6, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 2006.
StatisticsMultivariable Analysis: A Practical Guide for Clinicians
by Mitchell H. Katz, 2nd ed, 203 pp, with illus, $95, ISBN 0-521-04051-1, paper, $45, ISBN-13 978-0-521-54985-1, ISBN-10 0-521-54985-X, $95, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
ToxicologyGoldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies
edited by Neal E. Flomenbaum, Lewis R. Goldfrank, Robert S. Hoffman, Mary Ann Howland, Neal A. Lewin, and Lewis S. Nelson, 8th ed, includes access to http://goldfrankstoxicology.com, 1981 pp, with illus, $225, ISBN-13 978-0-07-143763-9, ISBN-10 0-07-143763-0, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing Division, 2006.
UrologyPediatric Neurogenic Bladder Dysfunction: Diagnosis, Treatment, Long-Term Follow-up
edited by Ciro Esposito, Jean Michel Guys, David Gough, and Antonio Savanelli, includes DVD, 391 pp, with illus, $199, ISBN-13 978-3-540-30866-9, ISBN-10 3-540-30866-0, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.

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