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JAMA. 2007;297(2):215-220. doi:10.1001/jama.297.2.219-b.
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Alcohol and Drug DependenceSubstance Use Disorders

by Stuart Gitlow, 2nd ed (Practical Guides in Psychiatry), 328 pp, paper, $39.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7817-6998-3, ISBN-10 0-7817-6998-1, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
CardiologyCardiac Arrhythmias 2005
edited by Antonio Raviele (workshop, Venice, Italy, October 2005), 712 pp, with illus, $129, ISBN-13 978-88-470-0370-9, ISBN-10 88-470-0370-5, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
DermatologyDermatology: A Pictorial Review
by Asra Ali (McGraw-Hill Specialty Board Review), 486 pp, with illus, paper, $59.95, ISBN-13 978-0-07-142293-2, ISBN-10 0-07-142293-5, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing, 2007.
GastroenterologyInflammatory Bowel Disease and Familial Adenomatous Polyposis: Clinical Management and Patients' Quality of Life
edited by Gian Gaetano Delaini, 481 pp, with illus, $259, ISBN-13 978-88-470-0433-7, ISBN-10 88-470-0433-0, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Health SystemsThe Business of Health: The Role of Competition, Markets, and Regulation
by Robert L. Ohsfeldt and John E. Schneider, 172 pp, with illus, paper, $20, ISBN-13 978-0-8447-4240-3, ISBN-10 0-8447-4240-6, Washington, DC, American Enterprise Institute/AEI Press, 2006.
Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan
edited by David A. Wise and Naohiro Yahiro (National Bureau of Economic Research, conference, Nikko, Japan, May 2003), 258 pp, with illus, $65, ISBN-13 978-0-226-90292-0, ISBN-10 0-226-90292-7, Chicago, Ill, University of Chicago Press, 2006.
HistoryState of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America
by James Colgrove (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public), 332 pp, with illus, $39.95, ISBN-13 978-0-520-24749-9, ISBN-10 0-520-24749-3, Berkeley, University of California Press, New York, NY, Milbank Memorial Fund, 2006.
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
by Sandra Hempel, 321 pp, with illus, $24.95, ISBN-13 978-0-520-25049-9, ISBN-10 0-520-25049-4, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007.
ImagingClinical Gated Cardiac SPECT
by Guido Germano and Daniel S. Berman, 2nd ed, 367 pp, with illus, $150, ISBN-13 978-1-4051-3155-1, ISBN-10 1-4051-3155-1, Malden, Mass, Blackwell Futura, 2006.
Infectious DiseaseBacterial-Epithelial Cell Cross-Talk: Molecular Mechanisms in Pathogenesis
edited by Beth A. McCormick (Advances in Molecular and Cellular Microbiology 13), 439 pp, with illus, $140, ISBN-13 978-0-521-85244-9, ISBN-10 0-521-85244-7, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Phagocytosis of Bacteria and Bacterial Pathogenicity
edited by Joel D. Ernst and Olle Stendahl (Advances in Molecular and Cellular Microbiology), 285 pp, with illus, $130, ISBN-13 978-0-521-84569-4, ISBN-10 0-521-84569-6, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
MedicineHandbook of Sleep Medicine
by Alon Y. Avidan and Phyllis C. Zee, 244 pp, with illus, paper, $44.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7817-6238-0, ISBN-10 0-7817-6238-3, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
Professionalism in Medicine: Critical Perspectives
edited by Delese Wear and Julie M. Aultman, 273 pp, $99, ISBN-13 978-0-387-32726-6, ISBN-10 0-387-32726-6, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
MiscellaneousLife and Words: Violence and the Descent Into the Ordinary
by Veena Das, 281 pp, $50, ISBN-13 978-0-520-24744-4, ISBN-10 0-520-24744-2, paper, $19.95, ISBN-13 978-0-520-24745-1, ISBN-10 0-520-24745-0, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007 (anthropological analysis of violent episodes in India, including 1947 partition and 1984 massacre of Sikhs).
The Lonely Patient: How We Experience Illness
by Michael Stein, 222 pp, $23.95, ISBN-13 978-0-06-084795-1, ISBN-10 0-06-084795-6, New York, NY, William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2007.
Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy
edited by Fitzhugh Mullan, Ellen Ficklen, and Kyna Rubin (A Health Affairs Reader), 293 pp, $40, ISBN 0-8018-8478-0, paper, $20, ISBN 0-8018-8479-9, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 (articles collected from the Journal of Health Affairs Narrative Matters column).
NeurologyClinician's Guide to Antiepileptic Drug Use
by Michael D. Privitera, Jennifer Cavitt, David M. Ficker, Jerzy P. Szaflarski, Timothy E. Welty, and Marcia J. Kaplan, 167 pp, paper, $39.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7817-6064-5, ISBN-10 0-7817-6064-X, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
Localization in Clinical Neurology
by Paul W. Brazis, Jose C. Masdeu, and José Biller, 5th ed, 594 pp, with illus, $159, ISBN-13 978-0-7817-9952-2, ISBN-10 0-7817-9952-X, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007.
Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders
edited by Joseph Jankovic and Eduardo Tolosa, 5th ed, includes Video Atlas of Movement Disorders CD-ROM, 2nd ed, 720 pp, with illus, $139, ISBN-13 978-0-7817-7881-7, ISBN-10 0-7817-7881-6, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007.
Obstetrics-GynecologyBerek and Novak's Gynecology
edited by Jonathan S. Berek, 14th ed, 1671 pp, with illus, $149, ISBN-13 978-0-7817-6805-4, ISBN-10 0-7817-6805-5, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007.
OphthalmologyPrinciples and Practice of Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision
edited by John R. Heckenlively and Geoffrey B. Arden, 2nd ed, 977 pp, with illus, $150, ISBN-13 978-0-262-08346-1, ISBN-10 0-262-08346-9, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 2006.
OtolaryngologyTextbook of Voice Disorders
edited by Albert L. Merati and Steven A. Bielamowicz, 262 pp, with illus, paper, $89.95, ISBN-13 978-1-59756-137-2, ISBN-10 1-59756-137-1, San Diego, Calif, Plural Publishing, 2007.
Pain, Palliative CareCachexia and Wasting: A Modern Approach
edited by Giovanni Mantovani, Stefan D. Anker, and Akio Inui, et al, 758 pp, with illus, $249, ISBN-13 978-88-470-0471-9, ISBN-10 88-470-0471-3, New York, NY, Springer, 2006.
Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology
edited by Ann M. Berger, John L. Shuster, Jr, and Jamie H. Von Roenn, 923 pp, with illus, $199, ISBN-13 978-0-7817-9595-1, ISBN-10 0-7817-9595-8, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007.
PsychiatryOxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry
by K. W. M. (Bill) Fulford, Tim Thornton, and George Graham, includes CD with 179 readings, 872 pp, with illus, paper, $110, ISBN-13 978-0-19-852695-7, ISBN-10 0-19-852695-4, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2006.
The Politics of the Personal in Feminist Family Therapy: International Examinations of Family Policy
edited by Anne M. Prouty Lyness, 184 pp, with illus, $37.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7890-3399-4, ISBN-10 0-7890-3399-2, paper, $17.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7890-3400-7, ISBN-10 0-7890-3400-X, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Press, 2005.
Sexual and Gender Diagnoses of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM): A Reevaluation
edited by Dan Karasic and Jack Drescher, 160 pp, $39.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7890-3213-3, ISBN-10 0-7890-3213-9, paper, $19.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7890-3214-0, ISBN-10 0-7890-3214-7, Binghamton, NY, Haworth Press, 2005.
RehabilitationBrain Injury Medicine: Principles and Practice
edited by Nathan D. Zasler, Douglas I. Katz, and Ross D. Zafonte, 1275 pp, with illus, $199, ISBN-13 978-1-888799-93-4, ISBN-10 1-888799-93-5, New York, NY, Demos, 2007.
SurgeryMastery of Cardiothoracic Surgery
edited by Larry R. Kaiser, Irving L. Kron, and Thomas L. Spray, 2nd ed, 1066 pp, with illus, $229, ISBN-13 978-0-7817-5209-1, ISBN-10 0-7817-5209-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007.
UrologyTips and Tricks in Laparoscopic Urology
edited by Udaya Kumar and Inderbir S. Gill, 239 pp, with illus, paper, $79.95, ISBN-13 978-1-84628-159-4, ISBN-10 1-84628-159-8, New York, Springer, 2007.
Urology
by Michael T. Macfarlane, 4th ed (House Office Series), 306 pp, with illus, paper, $39.95, ISBN-13 978-0-7817-9933-1, ISBN-10 0-7817-9933-3, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007.

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