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BOOKS Summer Reading Recent Books by Faculty of Harvard Medical, Dental, and Public Health Schools Jeffrey R. Morgan and Martin L. Yarmush, Editors Tissue Engineering Methods and Protocols Humana Press Researchers in the growing field of tissue engineering will welcome this guide to detailed experimental protocols. In 43 chapters, contributors describe methods to build scaffold materials ranging from biodegradable polymer foams to photopolymerized hydrogels, ways to make cells grow on these scaffolds, and clinical applications involving cartilage, liver, bone, and blood-borne cells. Editor Jeffrey Morgan is an HMS assistant professor of surgery, and Martin Yarmush is the Helen Andrus Benedict professor of surgery, both at Massachusetts General Hospital. Anthony C. Chang, Frank L. Hanley, Gil Wernovsky, and David L. Wessel, Editors Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Williams & Wilkins Bringing together basic pediatric cardiac knowledge with new, topical surgical insights, this book forms an up-to-date text for the established surgeon or the beginning student. The heart of the book is devoted to procedures, and is filled with clear diagrams describing both the treatment of many kinds of lesions and obstructions, and the latest in diagnostic technologies. Editor David Wessel is an HMS associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Children's Hospital. S.J. Enna and Joseph T. Coyle Pharmacological Management of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders McGraw-Hill This practical guide to neurologic and psychiatric disorders was cowritten by Joseph Coyle, the Eben S. Draper professor of psychiatry and of neuroscience at McLean and chair of the HMS Department of Psychiatry. The book begins with an overview of the neuropsychopharmacology of central nervous system disorders. Chapters cover the spectrum of major conditions including schizophrenia, ADD, developmental disorders, OCD, disorders of sleep, neuromuscular disorders, and dementia. Each includes a clinical description, diagnostic criteria, pharmacotherapeutics, and treatment recommendations. Paul Farmer Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues University of California Press For nearly 15 years Paul Farmer, HMS associate professor of social medicine and director of the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, has spent part of his year working with the poor in a clinic in Do Kay, Haiti. Drawing on his experience there, in Peru, and in the U.S., and using data from other parts of the world, Farmer has written a book that explores the social disparities that cause some to die from infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, and AIDS, while others are spared. When not in Haiti, Farmer practices at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Robert A. Kane, Editor Intraoperative, Laparoscopic, and Endoluminal Ultrasound Churchill Livingston Intraoperative ultrasound has seen significant advances in recent years, and now radiologists from across the country have written articles about it for this book, which also covers laparoscopic and endoluminal ultrasound. The text, written for radiologists, surgeons, and clinicians, surveys the uses and techniques of these types of ultrasonography and describes several innovative uses for ultrasound imaging. Editor Robert Kane is an HMS associate professor of radiology, director of ultrasound in the Radiology Department at Beth Israel Deaconess, and a contributor. Also among the contributors is Jonathan Kruskal, HMS assistant professor of radiology at BID. Baruch Krauss and Robert M. Brustowicz, Editors Pediatric Procedural Sedation and Analgesia Lippincott Williams & Wilkins With the realization in the 1980s that newborns have the neurophysiological apparatus to feel pain, pediatricians saw the ethical imperative to find safe procedures for sedating infants as well as other children. In this volume, editors Baruch Krauss, HMS instructor in pediatrics, and Robert M. Brustowicz, HMS assistant professor of anesthesia, both at Children's Hospital, present a practical approach to pediatric procedural sedation, one that can be applied in a wide variety of clinical situations, not just the operating room. Lynne Layton Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy? Jason Aronson Poststructuralism, which informs much contemporary literary and cultural criticism, resists the idea of an essential, fixed identity—whether for a text or a person. By contrast, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis strive to reach and reinforce the core self with the goal of enhancing a person's relations with others and the world. Layton, HMS assistant clinical professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess, takes as her theme the tension between these views as expressed in the area of gender identity. For clinicians and academics alike, the book is written as a guide to each other's terrain.   Jonathan Mann, Sofia Gruskin, Michael A. Grodin, George J. Annas, Editors Health and Human Rights Routledge This is the first comprehensive anthology to address the fundamental connection between public health and human rights. The essays cover such timely and significant topics as ethnic cleansing, world population policy, women's reproductive choices, the Nuremberg Code, AIDS and HIV policies and treatments, and the health effects of environmental pollution. This book challenges thinking about major global health issues of the next century and broadens the discussion of human rights issues. Co-editor Sofia Gruskin is a faculty lecturer on health and human rights at HSPH, and the late Jonathan Mann was the former director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center at the School. Philip A. Pizzo and Catherine M. Wilfert, Editors Pediatric AIDS: The Challenge of HIV Infection in Infants, Children, and Adolescents, Third Edition Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Though fewer American children are being born with HIV, due to AZT and other therapies, the number of infected newborns is rising in Third World countries. Drug regimens must be developed that are feasible for use throughout the world, write Philip Pizzo, the Thomas Morgan Rotch professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital, and his co-editor. This imperative, along with major new insights into the pathogenesis and treatment of pediatric AIDS and its infectious and noninfectious manifestations, are discussed in this nearly 900-page volume. Bernard Lown The Lost Art of Healing Ballantine Books First published in 1996, The Lost Art of Healing explores the loss of the fundamental human relationship between doctor and patient. Drawing on four decades of practice, Lown, professor emeritus of cardiology at HSPH, uses case histories to probe the heart of the doctor-patient relationship. He describes how healers use sympathetic listening and touch to hone their diagnostic skills, how language affects the perception of illness, how doctors and patients can cultivate a relationship of trust, and how patients can obtain the most complete and beneficial care. Ellen Lerner Rothman White Coat: Becoming a Doctor at Harvard Medical School William Morrow In a series of candid vignettes, Rothman takes the reader through four years of medical school, describing milestones and issues in her life and the lives of her classmates: the social focal point of the TV show ER, broaching sexuality with patients, dealing with pediatric AIDS, and what it means to be a doctor, to name a few. Now a first-year pediatric resident at Children's Hospital, Rothman began writing about HMS as a reporter and columnist for Focus. Fred S. Rosen and Raif S. Geha Case Studies in Immunology, Second Edition Current Biology/Garland This book bridges basic research and clinical practice by presenting 30 cases—11 more than the first edition—of immunological disorders seen at Children's and Brigham and Women's Hospitals. Fred Rosen, the James L. Gamble professor of pediatrics, and Raif Geha, the Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud professor of pediatrics, precede each case history with the facts to understand the condition and then end each chapter with a Q&A. Topics range from common conditions such as allergic asthma, to rare ones, including Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome. Martin A. Samuels, Editor Blue Books of Practical Neurology: Hospitalist Neurology Butterworth Heinemann Today's health care environment has produced a new medical specialist—the hospitalist. These hospital physicians quickly diagnose and treat acute problems in hospitalized patients, who tend to be very sick. Specifically designed as a neurology reference for the hospitalist, this book discusses neurological problems in the contexts a hospitalist is likely to encounter. For example, headaches are divided into those that typically arise in oncology, hematology, gastroenterology, or other wards. Editor Martin Samuels is an HMS professor of neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Back to Top