The Fall Bookshelf
Recent Books by Faculty of Harvard Medical, Dental, and Public Health Schools
Food
and Nutrition Controversies Today: A Reference Guide
Myrna Chandler Goldstein and Mark A. Goldstein
Greenwood Press
Reports and studies about nutrition and food often get a lot of attention,
but sometimes those reports offer little in the way of practical advice for
patients or their doctors and may even contradict one another. Author Myrna
Goldstein and her husband Mark Goldstein, HMS assistant professor of pediatrics
at Massachusetts General Hospital, have taken 16 of the most talked about food
controversies, such as bottled water vs. tap, farm-raised vs. fresh fish and
genetically modified foods, reviewed the literature and presented their conclusions.
They caution that the chapters are only meant to provide an introduction to
the discussions and provide a list of resources for further reading on each
topic.
The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious
Healing
Richard Kradin
Routledge
In clinical research, the placebo effect
is a familiar phenomenon, but little is known about how
this response is elicited, says Richard Kradin, HMS associate
professor of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Kradin delves into the history of the placebo in medicine,
noting that at one time all medical treatments were placebos,
and examines the placebo response’s place in modern
medicine. He reviews what is known about the placebo
response, who experiences it and when, and he attempts
to determine if it can be generalized or if there are
many different kinds of response for different diseases
and treatments.
A Mind Apart: Poems of Madness, Melancholy and Addiction
Mark S. Bauer, Editor
Oxford University Press
Mark Bauer, HMS professor of psychiatry at the VA Boston
Healthcare System (also see Overcoming Bipolar Disorder),
was asked to give a poetry reading by the Depression
and Bipolar Support Alliance. When he began searching
for appropriate poems, he was surprised to find no anthologies
that suited his needs. In response, he collected more
than 200 poems, spanning seven centuries, that address
either “mental illness” in a clinical sense
or “madness” in a cultural sense while addressing
a wide range of mental states, from mania to depression
to drug addiction. He mines from the work of Emily Dickinson,
Sylvia Plath and Shakespeare and includes the lyrics
to popular songs published in the early 1800s. An in-depth
introduction offers insight into his choices for the
anthology.
Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Gastroenterology,
Hepatology, & Endoscopy
Norton J. Greenberger, Richard S. Blumberg and Robert
Burakoff, Editors
McGraw Hill
Over the past decade, basic and translation
research has revealed new insights and ushered in dramatic
changes to the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology,
such as the use of endoscopy for diagnosis and treatment.
The fields have also seen the advent of subspecialties
in pancreatic disease and inflammatory bowel disease,
along with intersections with other specialties, like
radiology. Editors Norton Greenberger, HMS clinical professor
of medicine; Richard Blumberg, HMS professor of medicine;
and Robert Burakoff, HMS associate professor of medicine,
all at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have provided
a concise, up-to-date guide to the diagnosis and treatment
of gastrointestinal and hepatic disorders, almost exclusively
using authors from HMS and BWH.
The Violent Person
Raymond B. Flannery Jr.
The American Mental Health Foundation
Healthcare workers are often witnesses to violent behavior
and are sometimes even victims of it. In his book, Raymond
Flannery Jr., HMS associate clinical professor of psychology
in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital,
defines a behavioral emergency as one in which a potentially
violent person needs medical care. In three parts, Flannery
discusses the basic nature of behavioral emergencies
and some general strategies to assess and manage risk;
four common situations that can lead to behavioral emergencies,
psychological trauma, domestic violence, psychiatric
emergencies and youth violence; and some self-care techniques
to help clinicians deal with the stress and trauma of
responding to behavioral emergencies.
Overcoming Bipolar Disorder
Mark S. Bauer, Amy M. Kilbourne, Devra E. Greenwald,
Evette J. Ludman, and Linda McBride
New Harbinger Publications
Bipolar disorder has a biological component that can
be treated with drugs, but it has a behavioral component,
too, say Mark Bauer, HMS professor of psychiatry at the
VA Boston Healthcare System (also see A Mind Apart:
Poems of Madness, Melancholy and Addiction), and
his co-authors. Patients can learn to live well in spite
of their symptoms. This workbook gives patients a step-by-step
approach to understanding the disorder, dealing with
triggers and coping with symptoms, and maintaining relationships
with family and friends.
Cardiac Imaging: The Requisites (3rd Edition)
Stephen Wilmot Miller, Lawrence M. Boxt and Suhny Abbara,
Editors
Mosby Elsevier
The third edition of Cardiac Imaging, part
of The Requisites series of radiology textbooks,
reflects the increased usage of echocardiography and
cardiac magnetic resonance and new uses of technology
for noninvasive cardiac imaging. The first part of the
book provides an overview of cardiac imaging and descriptions
of the most commonly used technologies. The other chapters
examine the major categories of disease and how imaging
technologies can be used to identify and manage them.
Befitting a book about imaging, editors Stephen Miller,
HMS associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts
General Hospital; Lawrence Boxt of the Albert Einstein
College of Medicine; and Suhny Abbara, HMS associate
professor of radiology at MGH have included dozens of
photos and illustrations, many in full color.
Essential Atlas of Cardiovascular Disease
Peter Libby, Editor
Springer
The latest edition of the Essential Atlas of Cardiovascular
Disease, from the series originally edited by
Eugene Braunwald, the Hersey Distinguished professor
of the theory and practice of physic at HMS and Brigham
and Women’s Hospital, presents the most up-to-date
information on the major principles and recent advances
in cardiovascular medicine. Edited by Peter Libby,
the Mallinckrodt professor of medicine at HMS and chief
of cardiology at BWH, the book is image heavy, reflecting
the importance of imaging in cardiovascular disease
diagnosis and treatment. The text addresses the most
common clinical problems in cardiovascular medicine
and describes the strengths and weaknesses of the newest
diagnostic and management technologies versus older
ones.
In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores
the Mystery of her Mother’s Suicide
Nancy Rappaport
Basic Books
In 1963, after a publicized divorce
and custody battle, a mother commits suicide, leaving behind
four-year-old Nancy Rappaport, now an HMS assistant professor
of psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, and her five siblings. Mining court
documents, newspaper articles, her mother’s unpublished novel, and her
own memories and those of family and friends, Rappaport pieces together her mother’s
story and uses it as a framework to examine her own life as a girl growing up
without a mom, as a child psychiatrist and as a mother.