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Book and Media Reviews | December 13, 2006

JAMA. 2006;296(22):2737-2742. doi:10.1001/jama.296.22.2742.
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Biography, MemoirBeyond the Storm: Treating the Powerless and the Powerful in Mobutu's Congo/Zaire

by William T. Close with Malonga Miatudila, 343 pp, with illus, $25.95, ISBN-13 978-0-9703371-4-6, ISBN-10 0-9703371-4-0, Marbleton, Wyo, Meadowlark Springs Productions, 2007.
Digby: A Remarkable Life
by Julia L. Y. Chan and N. G. Patil, 84 pp, with illus, $35, ISBN-13 978-962-209-800-8, ISBN-10 962-209-800-2, Aberdeen, Hong Kong, PRC, Hong Kong University Press, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2006 (biography of Kenelm H. Digby, 1884-1954, surgeon, anatomist, and medical educator at the University of Hong Kong and prisoner of war during World War II).
GeneticsGenetic Counselling: A Psychological Approach
by Christine Evans, 204 pp, paper, $45, ISBN-13 978-0-521-67230-6, ISBN-10 0-521-67230-9, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Health SystemsDoctors Talking With Patients/Patients Talking With Doctors: Improving Communication in Medical Visits
by Debra L. Roter and Judith A. Hall, 2nd ed, 238 pp, $49.95, ISBN-13 978-0-275-99014-5, ISBN-10 0-275-99014-1, Westport, Conn, Praeger, 2006.
HistoryThe Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year
by A. Lloyd Moote and Dorothy C. Moote, 357 pp, with illus, paper, $18.95, ISBN-13 978-0-8018-8493-1, ISBN-10 0-8018-8493-4, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 (hardcover edition reviewed in JAMA November 3, 2004).
OtolaryngologyDiagnosis and Treatment of Voice Disorders
edited by John S. Rubin, Robert T. Sataloff, and Gwen S. Korovin, 3rd ed, 815 pp, with illus, $350, ISBN-13 978-1-59756-007-8, ISBN-10 1-59756-007-3, San Diego, Calif, Plural Publishing, 2006.
PsychiatryJournal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, vol 1, No. 1
edited by Ned Farley, 144 pp, paper, institutions $85, libraries $150, $45 indiv, free sample copy available, ISSN 1553-8605, Binghamton, NY, Harrington Park Press, 2005.
The Last Normal Child: Essays on the Intersection of Kids, Culture, and Psychiatric Drugs
by Lawrence H. Diller (Childhood in America), 148 pp, $39.95, ISBN-13 978-0-275-99096-1, ISBN-10 0-275-99096-6, Westport, Conn, Praeger, 2006 (new and reprinted essays).
Pulmonology-RespirologyBronchial Vascular Remodeling in Asthma and COPD
edited by Aili Lazaar (Lung Biology in Health and Disease, vol 216), 233 pp, with illus, $199.95, ISBN-13 978-0-8247-2981-3, ISBN-10 0-8247-2981-1, New York, NY, Informa Healthcare, 2006.
RehabilitationPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation Multimedia E-dition
edited by Randall L. Braddom, Ralph M. Buschbacher, and Leighton Chan, et al, 3rd ed, 1472 pp, with illus, $310, ISBN-13 978-1-4160-3138-3, ISBN-10 1-4160-3138-3, Philadelphia, Pa, Saunders Elsevier, 2006.
SurgeryArterial Grafting for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
edited by Guo-Wei He, 2nd ed, 356 pp, with illus, $249, ISBN-13 978-3-540-30083-0, ISBN-10 3-540-30083-X, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Atlas of Organ Transplantation
by Abhinav Humar, Arthur J. Matas, and William D. Payne, includes DVD, 339 pp, with illus, $269, ISBN-13 978-1-84628-314-7, ISBN-10 1-84628-314-0, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Women's HealthBiology and Epidemiology of Hormone Replacement Therapy: Discussions on Post-Menopausal Health
edited by M. A. Lewis, M. Dietel, P. C. Scriba, and W. K. Raff (Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop Supplement 13, workshop, Kloster Andechs, Bavaria, August 2003), 173 pp, with illus, $79.95, ISBN-13 978-3-540-32341-9, ISBN-10 3-540-32341-4, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.

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