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JAMA. 2006;296(14):1781-1786. doi:10.1001/jama.296.14.1786.
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Biography, MemoirThe Father of Forensics: The Groundbreaking Cases of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI

by Colin Evans, 326 pp, with illus, paper, $14, ISBN-13 978 0-425-21007-9, ISBN-10 0-425-21007-3, New York, NY, Berkley Books, 2006.
Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story
by Jerry and Mary Newport with Johnny Dodd, 261 pp, $24.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7432-7282-7, ISBN-10 0-7432-7282-X, New York, NY, Touchstone, 2006.
Nordie's at Noon: The Personal Stories of Four Women “Too Young” for Breast Cancer
by Patti Balwanz, Kim Carlos, Jennifer Johnson, and Jana Peters, 281 pp, $20, ISBN-13 978-0-7382-1086-5, ISBN-10 0-7382-1086-2, Cambridge, Mass, Da Capo Lifelong, 2006.
Cardiovascular MedicineCatheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias: A Practical Approach
edited by Claus Schmitt, Isabel Deisenhofer, and Bernhard Zrenner, 283 pp, with illus, $239, ISBN-13 978-3-7985-1575-8, ISBN-10 3-7985-1575-1, Darmstadt, Germany, Steinkopff Verlag, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Classic Papers in Coronary Angioplasty
edited by Clive Handler and Michael Cleman, 237 pp, with illus, $169, ISBN-13 978-1-84628-400-7, ISBN-10 1-84628-400-7, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Preventive Cardiology: Insights Into the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease
edited by JoAnne Micale Foody, 346 pp, with illus, $99.50, ISBN-13 978-1-58829-521-7, ISBN-10 1-58829-521-4, Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2006.
Health SystemsConstructive Conversations About Health: Policy and Values
edited by Marshall Marinker, 243 pp, with illus, paper, $55, ISBN-13 978-1-84619-033-9, ISBN-10 1-84619-033-9, Seattle, Wash, Radcliffe Publishing, 2006.
MiscellaneousA Balm for Gilead: Meditations on Spirituality and the Healing Arts
by Daniel P. Sulmasy, 160 pp, paper, $16.95, ISBN-13 978-0-87840-348-6, ISBN-10 1-58901-122-8, Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press, 2006.
The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
by Marvin Minsky, 374 pp, $26, ISBN 0-7432-7663-9, New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 2006 (“why emotions and feelings are just different ways of thinking”).
Home Telehealth: Connecting Care Within the Community
edited by Richard Wootton, Susan L. Dimmick, and Joseph C. Kvedar, 280 pp, with illus, $48, ISBN-13 978-1-85315-657-1, ISBN-10 1-85315-657-4, London, England, Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2006.
Implementing an Inpatient Smoking Cessation Program
by Patricia M. Smith and C. Barr Taylor, 261 pp, with illus, $79.95, ISBN-13 978-0-8058-5490-9, ISBN-10 0-8058-5490-8, Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
NeurologyFunctional Neuroscience—Evoked Potentials and Related Techniques: Selected Presentations From the Eighth International Evoked Potential Symposium (Fukuoka, Japan)
edited by C. Barber, S. Tsuji, S. Tobimatsu, T. Uozumi, N. Akamatsu, and A. Eisen (Supplements to Clinical Neurophysiology, vol 59), 339 pp, with illus, $210, ISBN-13 978-0-444-51697-8, ISBN-10 0-444-51697-2, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier, 2006.
The Neurological History and Examination: A Manual for Students and House Officers
by Monroe Cole, 161 pp, $24.95, ISBN-13 978-0-533-15241-4, ISBN-10 0-533-15241-0, New York, NY, Vantage Press, 2006.
Shattered Nerves: How Science Is Solving Modern Medicine's Most Perplexing Problem
by Victor D. Chase, 280 pp, $27.50, ISBN 0-8018-8514-0, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 (neural prosthetics).
Stroke Treatment and Prevention: An Evidence-Based Approach
by Graeme J. Hankey, 525 pp, with illus, $140, ISBN-13 978-0-521-82719-5, ISBN-10 0-521-82719-1, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
NutritionVegetarians and Vegans in America Today
by Karen Iacobbo and Michael Iacobbo (American Subcultures), 201 pp, with illus, $39.95, ISBN-13 978-0-275-99016-9, ISBN-10 0-275-99016-8, Westport, Conn, Praeger, 2006.
PediatricsBNF for Children 2006: The Essential Resource for Clinical Use of Medicines in Children
(British National Formulary), 897 pp, paper, $49.95, ISBN-13 978-0-85369-676-6, ISBN-10 0-85369-676-4, London, England, BMJ Publishing Group, Chicago, Ill, Pharmaceutical Press, 2006.
The Cleveland Clinic Intensive Review of Pediatrics
edited by Camille Sabella and Robert J. Cunningham III, 2nd ed, 594 pp, with illus, paper, $99.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7817-7115-3, ISBN-10 0-7817-7115-3, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
PerinatologyFetal and Neonatal Secrets: Questions You Will Be Asked
by Richard A. Polin and Alan R. Spitzer, 2nd ed, includes access to http://www.studentconsult.com, 499 pp, with illus, paper, $39.95, ISBN-13 978-0-323-03468-5, ISBN-10 0-323-03468-3, Philadelphia, Pa, Mosby Elsevier, 2007.
PsychiatryAn Introduction to GLBT Family Studies
edited by Jerry J. Bigner, 299 pp, with illus, $69.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7890-2496-1, ISBN-10 0-7890-2496-9, paper, $24.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7890-2497-8, ISBN-10 0-7890-2497-7, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Press, 2006.
DSM-IV-TR Case Book, Volume 2: Experts Tell How They Treated Their Own Patients
edited by Robert L. Spitzer, Michael B. First, Janet B. W. Williams, and Miriam Gibbon, 461 pp, paper, $42, ISBN-13 978-1-58562-220-7, ISBN-10 1-58562-220-6, Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2006.
Essential Psychopharmacology—The Prescriber's Guide: Antipsychotics and Mood Stabilizers
by Stephen M. Stahl, with illustrations by Nancy Muntner, 123 pp, with illus, paper, $24.99, ISBN-13 978-0-521-61635-5, ISBN-10 0-521-61635-2, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Mental Wellness in Adults With Down Syndrome: A Guide to Emotional and Behavioral Strengths and Challenges
by Dennis McGuire and Brian Chiccoine, 431 pp, with illus, paper, $24.95, ISBN-13 978-1-890627-65-2, ISBN-10 1-890627-65-8, Bethesda, Md, Woodbine House, 2006.
Radiation TherapyTechnical Basis of Radiation Therapy: Practical Clinical Applications
edited by Seymour H. Levitt, James A. Purdy, Carlos A. Perez, and Srinivasan Vijayakumar, 4th rev ed (Medical Radiology: Radiation Oncology), 861 pp, with illus, $259, ISBN-13 978-3-540-21338-3, ISBN-10 3-540-21338-4, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
RehabilitationTeaching Motor Skills to Children With Cerebral Palsy and Similar Movement Disorders: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
by Sieglinde Martin, 237 pp, with illus, paper, $19.95, ISBN-13 978-1-890627-72-0, ISBN-10 1-890627-72-0, Bethesda, Md, Woodbine House, 2006.
ResearchPublishing and Presenting Clinical Research
by Warren S. Browner, 2nd ed, 212 pp, with illus, paper, $69.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7817-9506-7, ISBN-10 0-7817-9506-0, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
RheumatologyBasic and Clinical Aspects of Neuroendocrine Immunology in Rheumatic Diseases
edited by Maurizio Cutolo, Robert G. Lahita, Johannes W. J. Bijlsma, Alfonse T. Masi, and Rainer H. Straub (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol 1069, conference, Genova, Italy, September 2005), 495 pp, with illus, paper, $125, ISBN-13 978-1-57331-593-7, ISBN-10 1-57331-593-1, Malden, Mass, Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

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