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Book and Media Reviews | October 25, 2006

JAMA. 2006;296(16):2030-2035. doi:10.1001/jama.296.16.2035.
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AnesthesiologyAnesthesia and Orthopaedic Surgery

by André P. Boezaart, 453 pp, with illus, $159, ISBN-13 978-0-07-144686-0, ISBN-10 0-07-144686-9, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing Division, 2006.
Biography, MemoirLessons in Mortality: Doctors and Patients Struggling Together
by Allen B. Weisse, 182 pp, $24.95, ISBN-13 978-0-8262-1666-3, ISBN-10 0-8262-1666-8, Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 2006 (vignettes from decades of practice conveying an academic cardiologist's view of medicine).
A Small Moment of Great Illumination: Searching for Valentine Greatrakes, the Master Healer
by Leonard Pitt, 214 pp, with illus, $22, ISBN-13 978-1-59376-126-4, ISBN-10 1-59376-126-0, Emeryville, Calif, Shoemaker Hoard, 2006 (account of the life of 17th-century Irishman with healing powers and of the author's researching of that life).
CancerNutrient-Gene Interactions in Cancer
edited by Sang-Woon Choi and Simonetta Friso, 281 pp, with illus, $149.95, ISBN-13 978-0-8493-3229-6, ISBN-10 0-8493-3229-X, Boca Raton, Fla, CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Critical Care MedicineAnaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine: A.P.I.C.E. 20
edited by Antonino Gullo (course, Trieste, Italy, November 2005), 867 pp, with illus, paper, $119, ISBN-13 978-88-470-0406-1, ISBN-10 88-470-0406-3, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Perioperative and Critical Care Medicine: Educational Issues 2005
edited by Antonino Gullo and Giorgio Berlot (University of Trieste School of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, APICE School of Critical Care Medicine, Trieste, Italy), 238 pp, with illus, paper, $99, ISBN-13 978-88-470-0416-0, ISBN-10 88-470-0416-0, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
DermatologyA Clinician's Guide to Dermatologic Differential Diagnosis, vol 1: The Text
by Paul I. Schneiderman and Marc E. Grossman, 724 pp, $249.95, ISBN-13 978-0-415-39052-1, ISBN-10 0-415-39052-4, Abingdon, Oxon, England, Informa Health Care, New York, NY, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
A Clinician's Guide to Dermatologic Differential Diagnosis, vol 2: The Atlas
by Paul I. Schneiderman and Marc E. Grossman, 725 pp, with illus, $299.95, ISBN-13 978-0-415-39051-4, ISBN-10 0-415-39051-6, Abingdon, Oxon, England, Informa Healthcare, New York, NY, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
EndocrinologyEndocrine Physiology
by Patricia E. Molina, 2nd ed (Lange Physiology Series), 296 pp, with illus, paper, $34.95, ISBN-13 978-0-07-146048-4, ISBN -10 0-07-146048-9, New York, NY, Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, 2006.
GeriatricsElder Abuse and Mistreatment: Policy, Practice, and Research
edited by M. Joanna Mellor and Patricia Brownell, 258 pp, $49.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7890-3022-1, ISBN-10 0-7890-3022-5, paper, $29.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7890-3023-8, ISBN-10 0-7890-3023-3, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Press, 2006.
Health SystemsThe Nun and the Bureaucrat: How They Found an Unlikely Cure for America's Sick Hospitals
by Louis M. Savary and Clare Crawford-Mason, 235 pp, paper, $21.95, ISBN-13 978-0-9779461-0-5, ISBN-10 0-9779461-0-X, Washington, DC, CC-M Productions, http://www.managementwisdom.com, 2006 (companion to the documentary Good News . . . How Hospitals Heal Themselves describes application of “Toyota management principles”).
Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery
edited by Randolph W. Hall (International Series in Operations Research and Management Science), 458 pp, with illus, $129, ISBN-13 978-0-387-33635-0, ISBN-10 0-387-33635-4, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
HIVThe Geometry of Care: Linking Resources, Research, and Community to Reduce Degrees of Separation Between HIV Treatment and Prevention
edited by Debbie Indyk, 260 pp, $34.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7890-3211-9, ISBN-10 0-7890-3211-2, paper, ISBN-13 978-0-7890-3212-6, ISBN-10 0-7890-3212-0, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Press, 2006.
InformaticsThe Internet and Health Care: Theory, Research, and Practice
edited by Monica Murero and Ronald E. Rice, 403 pp, with illus, paper, $39.95, ISBN-13 978-0-8058-5815-0, ISBN-10 0-8058-5815-6, Mahway, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
MedicineCommon Medical Diagnoses: An Algorithmic Approach
by Patrice M. Healey and Edwin J. Jacobson, 4th ed, 242 pp, paper, $42.95, ISBN-13 978-1-4160-2542-0, ISBN-10 1-4160-2542-1, Philadelphia, Pa, Saunders Elsevier, 2006.
Syncope Cases
edited by Roberto García-Civera, Gonzalo Barón-Esquivias, and Jean-Jacques Blanc, et al, 322 pp, with illus, paper, $79.95, ISBN-13 978-1-4051-5109-2, ISBN-10 1-4051-5109-9, Malden, Mass, Blackwell Futura, 2006.
MiscellaneousSkeletal Development and Remodeling in Health, Disease, and Aging
edited by Mone Zaidi (Annals of the New York Academy of Science, vol 1068, conference, New York, NY, May 2005), 575 pp, with illus, paper, $145, ISBN-13 978-1-57331-583-8, ISBN-10 1-57331-583-4, Boston, Mass, Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
NeurologyEEG Pearls
by Mark Quigg, 285 pp, with illus, paper, $41.95, ISBN-13 978-0-323-04233-8, ISBN-10 0-323-04233-3, Philadelphia, Pa, Mosby Elsevier, 2006.
OrthopedicsChondral Disease of the Knee: A Case-Based Approach
edited by Brian J. Cole and M. Mike Malek, 147 pp, with illus, $99, ISBN-13 978-0-387-30830-2, ISBN-10 0-387-30830-X, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Pharmacology-TherapeuticsTNF-alpha Inhibitors
edited by Jeffrey M. Weinberg and Robin Buchholz (Milestones in Drug Therapy), 133 pp, with illus, $129, ISBN-13 978-3-7643-7248-4, ISBN-10 3-7643-7248-6, Basel, Switzerland, Birkäuser Verlag, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
PsychiatryPsychosomatic Medicine
edited by Michael Blumenfield and James J. Strain, includes interactive DVD, 949 pp, with illus, $199, ISBN-13 978-0-7817-6046-1, ISBN-10 0-7817-6046-1, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
Relational Processes and DSM-V: Neuroscience, Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment
edited by Steven R. H. Beach, Marianne Z. Wamboldt, and Nadine J. Kaslow, et al, 271 pp, with illus, paper, $59, ISBN-13 978-1-58562-238-2, ISBN-10 1-58562-238-9, Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2006.
Schizophrenia in Focus
by David M. Taylor (In Focus), 236 pp, with illus, $49.95, ISBN-13 978-0-85369-607-0, ISBN-10 0-85369-607-1, Chicago, Ill, Pharmaceutical Press, 2006.
RadiotherapyNew Technologies in Radiation Oncology
edited by Wolfgang Schlegel, Thomas Bortfeld, and Anca-Ligia Grosu (Medical Radiology: Radiation Oncology), 460 pp, with illus, $269, ISBN-13 978-3-540-00321-2, ISBN-10 3-540-00321-5, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
ResearchStudy Design and Statistical Analysis: A Practical Guide for Clinicians
by Mitchell H. Katz, 188 pp, with illus, $95, ISBN-13 978-0-521-82675-4, ISBN-10 0-521-82675-6, paper, $39.99, ISBN-13 978-0-521-53407-9, ISBN-10 0-521-53407-0, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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