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NEW BOOKS The Winter Bookshelf Recent Books by Faculty of Harvard Medical, Dental, and Public Health Schools Max Essex, Souleymane Mboup, Phyllis J. Kanki, Richard G. Marlink, and Sheila D. Tlou, Editors AIDS in Africa, Second Edition Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers "The way we deal with AIDS in Africa will determine Africa's future," writes U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan in the foreword of this new edition of AIDS in Africa, which has been revised to reflect the current, and likely future, epidemic. The book has two objectives: to provide a single comprehensive source of information to those who are addressing the crisis and to recruit to the cause political leaders, public health experts, care providers, scientists, educators, and community leaders. The editors are Max Essex, chairman of the Harvard AIDS Institute and the John LaPorte Given professor of infectious diseases at HSPH; Souleymane Mboup of the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal; Phyllis Kanki, HSPH professor of immunology and infectious diseases; Richard Marlink, executive director of the Harvard AIDS Institute; and Sheila Tlou of the University of Botswana. Myrna Chandler Goldstein and Mark A. Goldstein Controversies in Food and Nutrition Greenwood Press This volume in the Contemporary Controversies series, aimed at high school and college students, tackles the often contradictory messages the media deliver about food and nutrition. Each of the 15 chapters presents a topic that has been studied extensively by researchers and both sides of the issue are discussed. Some of the topics addressed are food additives, vegetarian and vegan diets, animal growth hormones, food labeling, hidden ingredients in foods, and antioxidants. This is the second book in the series cowritten by Mark Goldstein, HMS assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital and chief of pediatrics and student health services at MIT. Mark Feldman, Lawrence S. Friedman, and Marvin H. Sleisenger, Editors Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Management Seventh Edition, Volumes I and II Saunders Called by Robert Donaldson, a professor emeritus at Yale, in his foreword, "the first modern, science-based textbook of gastroenterology," this seventh edition expands the field of study charted 30 years ago when the text was first published. Since then, according to Donaldson, one of the foremost additions to the text has been the inclusion of experts outside the field of gastroenterology, establishing a broader context for study and practice. The two-volume set is geared toward gastroenterologists, residents, primary care physicians, and medical students and covers disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, biliary tree, pancreas, and liver. It also addresses nutrition and peritoneal disorders. Because GI practice relies heavily on endoscopic images, radiographs, and pathology specimens, editors Lawrence Friedman, HMS professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Mark Feldman of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, and Marvin Sleisenger of the University of California, San Francisco have made a special effort to include scores of high-quality color and black and white images to illustrate their topics. The contents of the first volume include GI tract and liver biology, nutrition, multiple-organ conditions, and individual organs of the digestive system. Volume II picks up with the liver, intestines, vasculature and supporting structures, and psychosocial factors in GI disorders. A total of 177 physicians and scientists contributed to the two volumes. Michael Benatar Analytic Neurology: Examining the Evidence for Clinical Practice Butterworth-Heinemann This volume by Michael Benatar, HMS clinical fellow in neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, offers an evidence-based approach to neurology practice. Applying the same question-and-answer format used in the clinical setting, it focuses on the diagnosis, management, and prognosis of the most common neurologic problems through an exploration of relevant literature. Benatar reviews the evidence that supports clinical practice, allowing readers to evaluate the information to reach independent conclusions. Each question features a detailed discussion of the literature. A highly selected series of articles is presented along with the answers. Detailed discussions, with a critique of the studies, focus upon important methodological issues. Kenneth Arndt and Jeffrey Dover Controversies and Conversations in Cutaneous Laser Surgery American Medical Association Kenneth Arndt, HMS clinical professor of dermatology, and dermatologist Jeffrey Dover, both at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and more than 30 other leaders in the field, offer their expert opinions on current trends and state-of-the-art techniques in cutaneous and aesthetic laser surgery. Succinct information is presented on the most advanced therapies and treatments available, helping practitioners to make the best therapeutic decisions. This reference may benefit beginners as well as experienced laser and aesthetic surgeons. It examines new laser techniques while providing expert guidance on using lasers successfully in a wide variety of clinical situations. Helen Riess and Mary Dockray-Miller Integrative Group Treatment for Bulimia Nervosa Columbia University Press A chance meeting at their daughters' ballet class brought the co-authors together to produce this manual that can be used to treat the estimated 5 to 19 percent of college women nationwide, as well as others, who suffer from bulimia nervosa. Their group approach is an affordable and effective option, particularly in an era of cost containment. The manual describes in detail a 12-session group treatment offered at Massachusetts General Hospital that the authors, Helen Riess, HMS assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at MGH, and Mary Dockray-Miller of Lesley College, say helped decrease the frequency of binging and purging behaviors and alleviated depression. Paul Farmer Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor University of California Press In his latest book, Paul Farmer, the Maude and Lillian Presley professor of social medicine at HMS, illustrates through anecdotes of his time spent in Cuba, Russia, Mexico, Peru, and Haiti the ways in which structural violence--extreme poverty, social inequalities, human rights abuses--affects the health and quality of life of poor populations. Using case studies, the book examines the struggle for social and economic rights as they relate to health. "We live in an age of science, technology, and economic affluence when, as Farmer points out, we can, for the first time in history, deal effectively with the diseases that ravage humanity," writes economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in the foreword. "And yet the reach of science and of globalization has stopped short of bringing reasonable opportunity for survival within the grasp of the deprived masses in our affluent world. This is where the pathologies of power take their toll." Jon Rohde and John Wyon, Editors Community-Based Health Care: Lessons from Bangladesh to Boston Management Sciences for Health Co-edited by John Wyon, retired HSPH senior lecturer who taught in the Department of Population Sciences and International Health for 35 years, this anthology on community-based health care with essays by 36 of the world's leading health experts details what works and what doesn't in a range of situations across the globe. It also demonstrates that the successful principles and approaches of different health care models can be useful to those in other parts of the world despite cultural and economic differences. Warren J. Manning and Dudley J. Pennell Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Churchill Livingstone The rapidly developing field of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) provides an unprecedented treasure trove of information about the heart and circulatory system and the potential to improve the care of patients with ischemic heart disease, writes Eugene Braunwald, HMS faculty dean for academic programs at Partners HealthCare System, in the foreword to this new textbook, co-edited by Warren Manning, HMS associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Dudley Pennell of Imperial College in London. The text aims to provide a foundation for newcomers undertaking the steep learning curve for using the technology. Physicians with cardiac patients need to become as familiar with CMR imaging as their early 20th century predecessors did with radiographs, Braunwald writes. Michael C. Young The Peanut Allergy Answer Book Fair Winds Press Written in a style that is both reassuring and cautious, allergist Michael Young, HMS assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital, explains how the potentially fatal peanut allergy works, how to prevent reactions, and how to manage the social and developmental issues food allergies can cause in every stage of a child's life. In addition to anecdotes that illustrate a variety of true-life situations faced by the peanut allergic, Young includes several practical resources for parents, including directions for using an EpiPen, how to read food labels to spot hidden peanut ingredients, questions to ask an allergic child's school, a template for an emergency health care plan, and a bulleted recap of the book's "main take-home points." H. Royden Jones Jr., Darryl C. De Vivo, and Basil T. Darras, Editors Neuromuscular Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence: A Clinician's Approach Butterworth-Heinemann This is the only comprehensive textbook of its kind, covering the full range of neuromuscular diseases seen in children. It explains how childhood neuromuscular diseases differ from those in adults and provides clinicians with all the knowledge they need to successfully diagnose and treat their pediatric patients. The 65 chapters are grouped into sections on clinical and laboratory approaches to the infant and child with a neuromuscular problem, infantile hypotonia and arthrogryposis, anterior horn cell disorders, radiculopathies and plexopathies, neuromuscular junction disorders, myopathies, special clinical problems, and general therapeutic principles. Jones is an HMS clinical professor of neurology and Darras is an HMS associate professor of neurology, both at Children's Hospital. John Barlow The Cerebellum and Adaptive Control Cambridge University Press This book reinforces the view of the cerebellum as an adaptive control system, automatically adjusting its output for such eventualities as temporary or lasting weakness of muscle. Barlow, an HMS senior research associate in neurology (neurophysiology) at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the first to synthesize the literature on the subject, combining the neuroscience of the cerebellum with the science of control theory familiar to electrical and computer engineers. The book examines cerebellar anatomy, physiology, function, and models and theories, and its clinical perspective offers a view of cerebellar function beyond the basic neuroscience. Barlow offers evidence supporting the adaptive control model from a detailed comparison of the cerebellum with an adaptive signal processor of his own design. Richard J. Kitz, Editor "This Is No Humbug!": Reminiscences of the Department of Anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital These personal chronicles from 15 faculty members, including editor Richard Kitz, the Henry Isaiah Dorr distinguished professor of research and teaching in anesthetics and anesthesia, form a history of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia. The authors, all members of the department who collectively have accumulated 500 years of service, use first-person narration and anecdotes to describe the organization's growth and development. The result is a book based on stand-alone chapters giving diverse personal commentaries on the intellectual, practical, and emotional experience of working in this department and building it at the same time. Joseph P. Newhouse Pricing the Priceless: A Health Care Conundrum MIT Press Based on the Walras-Pareto lectures he delivered at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, this book by Joseph Newhouse, HMS professor of health care policy and the John D. MacArthur professor of health policy and management at the Kennedy School of Government, is geared toward the general economist without a background in health economics and the noneconomist with an interest in health policy who has some economics background. In it, Newhouse explains the different medical pricing systems of the health care industry and how they affect resource allocation and efficiency. All pricing arrangements, he explains, involve trade-offs.