Books Received

Abstract

Applied Econometrics for Health Economists (2nd rev edn) by Andrew Jones. Gynaecological surgery Ambulatory Hysteroscopy: An Evidence-Based Guide to Diagnosis and Therapy in the Outpatient Setting by Shagaf H Bakour, Sian E Jones, Khalid S Khan. From Melanocytes to Malignant Melanoma: The Progression to Malignancy by Vincent Hearing, Stanley Leong. Male Sexual Function: A Guide to Clinical Management (2nd edn) by John J Mulcahy.

The books listed below were received between October 2006 and December 2007.

Reviews of selected titles have appeared in recent issues of the Annals or will appear in the near future.

Anatomy

Clinical Anatomy: Applied anatomy for students and junior doctors (11th edn) by Harold Ellis. Paperback. 456 p. Blackwell (Oxford), 2006. £32.99. ISBN 1405138041.

Get Through MRCS: Anatomy Vivas by Simon Overstall. Paperback. 113 p. RSM Press (London), 2006. £19.95. ISBN 185315668X.

Last's Anatomy: Regional and Applied (11th edn) by Chummy S Sinnatamby. Paperback. 568 p. Elsevier (London), 2006. £44.99. ISBN 0443100330.

Bariatric surgery

Laparoscopic Gastric Banding with the Swedish Adjustable Gastric Band (SAGB Quick Close) by K Miller. Paperback. 98 p. Euromed (Haslemere), 2006. £27.50. ISBN 189901568X.

Cardiology

Cardiac Arrhythmias: Practical Notes on Interpretation and Treatment (7th edn) by David H Bennett. Paperback. 412 p. Hodder Arnold (London), 2006. £29.99. ISBN 9780340925621.

Recent Advances in Cardiology 14 by Derek J Rowlands, Bernard Clarke. Paperback. 256 p. RSM Press (London), 2007. £35.00. ISBN 9781853157158.

Essentials of Restenosis: For the Interventional Cardiologist by Henricus J Duckers, Elizabeth G Nabel, Patrick W Serruys. Hardback. 458 p. Humana (Towota, NJ), 2007. US$ 134.95. ISBN 9781588294913.

Dentistry

Carranza's Clinical Periodontology (10th edn) by Michael G Newman, Henry H Takei, Perry R Klokkevold, Fermin A Carranza. Hardback. 1328 p. Elsevier (Amsterdam), 2006. £74.99. ISBN 141602400X.

Emergency medicine

Get Through Accident and Emergency Medicine: MCQs by Amy Herlihy. Paperback. 140 p. RSM Press (London), 2006. £22.50. ISBN 1853156949.

Lecture Notes: Emergency Medicine by Chris Moulton, David Yates. Paperback. 446 p. Blackwell (Oxford), 2006. £24.99. ISBN 1405122730.

General interest

A Surgical Revolution: Surgery in Scotland 1837-1901 by Peter Jones. Paperback. 231 p. Birlinn (Edinburgh), 2007. £20.00. ISBN 0859766845.

Applied Econometrics for Health Economists (2nd rev edn) by Andrew Jones. Paperback. 128 p. Radcliffe (Abingdon), 2007. £19.95. ISBN 9781846191718.

Atlas of Genetic Diagnosis and Counseling by Harold Chen. Hardback. 1088 p. Humana (New Jersey), 2005. £144.50. ISBN 1588296814.

Better Physician Writing and Speaking Skills by John Gartland. Paperback. 120 p. Radcliffe (Abingdon), 2007. £19.95. ISBN 1846191742.

Compendium of Health Statistics (18th edn) by Emma Hawe. Paperback. 304 p. Radcliffe (Abingdon), 2007. £89.00. ISBN 9781846192128978.

Cut to the Chase: 100 Matrix Pearls for Doctors by Leo A Gordon. Paperback. 296 p. tfm (Shrewsbury), 2006. £25.00. ISBN 1903378494.

Flesh and Bones of Surgery by Aneel A Banghu, Michael RB Keighley. Paperback. 198 p. Mosby Elsevier (London), 2007. £17.99. ISBN 139780723433767.

How Not To Be a Doctor and other essays by John Launer. Hardback. 122 p. RSM Press (London), 2007. £24.95. ISBN 9781853157523.

How to Succeed in Writing a Book by Ruth Chambers, Gill Wakley, Gillian Nineham, Gregory Moxon, Michelle Topham. Paperback. 128 p. Radcliffe (Abingdon), 2006. £17.95. ISBN 1846190398.

Law for Doctors: Principles and Practicalities (3rd edn) by John Paul Garside. Paperback. 94 p. RSM Press (London), 2006. £14.95. ISBN 1853156817.

Making the Cut in South Africa: A Medico-Political Journey by Johan Naudé. Paperback. 172 p. RSM Press (London), 2007. £14.95. ISBN 1853157554.

Medicine and Warfare: Spain, 1936-1939 by Nicholas Coni. Hardback. 266 p. Routledge (London), 2008. £65.00. ISBN 0415385970.

Men of Steel: Surgery in the Napoleonic Wars by Michael Crumplin. Hardback. 620 p. Quiller Press (Shrewsbury), 2007. £30.00. ISBN 9781904057949.

Mother Killers by John Piper. Hardback. 260 p. Book Guild (Brighton), 2007. £16.99. ISBN 9781846240874.

Napoleon's Ulcer and other medico-historical stories by Robert Richardson. Paperback. 240 p. Quiller (Shrewsbury), 2006. £14.95. ISBN 1904057969.

Nelson: a Medical Casebook by Ann-Mary E Hills. Hardback. 264 p. Spellmount (Stroud, Gloucs), 2006. £20.00. ISBN 1862273219.

On Being a Doctor by Christine Laine, Michael A LaCombe. Hardback. 370 p. American College of Physicians (Philadelphia, PA), 2007. £19.95. ISBN 9781930513884.

Physicians and Society: A Social History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh by Morrice McCrae. Hardback. 274 p. Birlinn (Edinburgh), 2007. £25.00. ISBN 139780859766982.

Pioneers In Surgical Gastroenterology by Walford Gillison, Henry Buchwald. Hardback. 336 p. tfm (Shrewsbury), 2007. £45.00. ISBN 1903378354.

Post Mortem: Solving History's Great Medical Mysteries by Philip A Mackowiak. Hardback. 200 p. RSM Press (London), 2007. £19.95. ISBN 9781930513891.

Strategies for Healthcare Education by Jan Woodhouse. Paperback. 168 p. Radcliffe (Abingdon), 2007. £24.95. ISBN 1846190061.

Suffering and Healing in America by Raymond Downing. Paperback. 144 p. Radcliffe (Abingdon), 2007. £24.95. ISBN 1846191300.

The New Politics of the NHS by Rudolf Klein. Paperback. 296 p. Radcliffe (Abingdon), 2006. £24.95. ISBN 1846190665.

The Secret History of a Woman Patient by Janet Rhys Dent. Paperback. 128 p. Radcliffe (Abingdon), 2007. £17.95. ISBN 9781846191503.

The Secret Life of Dr James Barry by Rachel Holmes. Paperback. 336 p. Tempus (Stroud, Gloucs), 2007. £12.99. ISBN 100752441396.

Threads of Destiny: A Surgeon's Odyssey by Charles Marks. Paperback. 255 p. Tate Publishing (Mustang, OK), 2007. £13.80. ISBN 9781602473508.

With Words and Knives: Learning Medical Dispassion in Early Modern England by Lynda Payne. Hardback. 194 p. Ashgate (Aldershot, Hants), 2007. £55.00. ISBN 9780754636892.

General surgery

General Surgery (11th edn) by Harold Ellis, Sir Roy Calne, Christopher Watson. Paperback. 408 p. Blackwell (London), 2006. £18.99. ISBN 1405139110.

Gynaecological surgery

Ambulatory Hysteroscopy: An Evidence-Based Guide to Diagnosis and Therapy in the Outpatient Setting by Shagaf H Bakour, Sian E Jones, Khalid S Khan. Paperback. 142 p. RSM Press (London), 2006. £29.95. ISBN 185315640X.

Hepatobiliary surgery

Operation Primer: Clipless Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy by A Jänes. Paperback. 78 p. Euromed Communications (Haslemere), 2006. £27.50. ISBN 1899015620.

Imaging

Emergency Ultrasound Made Easy by Justin Bowra, Russell E McLaughlin. Paperback. 164 p. Churchill Livingstone (London), 2006. £19.99. ISBN 0443101507.

Surgical Ultrasound by R Mantke, U Peitz. Hardback. 448 p. Thieme (Stuttgart), 2006. €149.95. ISBN 9783131318716.

Medical education

Assessment in Medical Education and Training by Neil Jackson, Alex Jamieson, Anwar Khan. Paperback. 192 p. Radcliffe (Abingdon), 2007. £24.95. ISBN 9781846190469.

Medicine

Inherited Metabolic Diseases: A guide to 100 conditions by Steve Hannigan. Paperback. 184 p. Radcliffe (Abingdon), 2007. £24.95. ISBN 9781846190995.

Microbiology

MRSA in Practice by Ian Gould. Paperback. 140 p. RSM Press (London), 2006. £18.95. ISBN 9781853156878.

Neurosurgery

Examination of Peripheral Nerve Injuries by Stephen M Russell. Paperback. 340 p. Thieme (Stuttgart), 2006. €39.95. ISBN 103131430710.

Neurosurgical Operative Atlas: Neuro-Oncology by Benham Badie. Hardback. 368 p. Thieme (Stuttgart), 2006. €219.95. ISBN 103131419512.

Ophthalmology

Get Through MRCOphth Part 3: EMQs by Sharmina Khan, Ourania Frangouli. Paperback. 210 p. RSM Press (London), 2006. £22.50. ISBN 9781853156090.

Oral and maxillofacial surgery

Maxillofacial Surgery (2nd edn) by P Ward Booth, S Schendel, J-E Hausamen. Hardback. 1760 p. Churchill Livingstone (London), 2006. £250.00. ISBN 9780443100536.

Oral & Intravenous Bisphosphonate-Induced Osteonecrosis of the Jaws: History, Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment by Robert E Marx. Paperback. 160 p. Quintessence Publishing (New Malden), 2007. £58.00. ISBN 9780867154627.

Paediatric surgery

Operative Pediatric Surgery (6th edn) by Lewis Spitz, Arnold G Coran. Hardback. 1060 p. Hodder Arnold (London), 2006. £250.00. ISBN 9780340813409.

Pathophysiology

High Altitude Medicine and Physiology (4th edn) by John B West, Robert B Schoene, James S Milledge. Hardback. 484 p. Hodder Arnold (London), 2007. £79.00. ISBN 9780340913444.

Pharmacology

Drugs and Pregnancy: A Handbook by Bertis B Little. Paperback. 372 p. Hodder Arnold (London), 2006. £29.99. ISBN 9780340809174.

Plastic surgery

Plastic Surgery Survival Guide to Trauma by Amir Nakhdjevani, Richard Baker, Hootan Ahmadi. Hardback. 150 p. RSM Press (London), 2007. £24.95. ISBN 9781853157707.

Reconstructive surgery

Reconstructive Microsurgery: A New Conception by Doina Dumitrescu-Ionescu. Paperback. 352 p. Booksurge (Charleston, SC), 2007. US $26.99. ISBN 1419630520.

Research

Clinical Research Methods for Surgeons by David F Penson, John T Wei, Lazar J Greenfield. Hardback. 350 p. Humana (Totowa, NJ), 2006. £61.00. ISBN 1597452300.

Laboratory Skills for Science and Medicine by Maxine Lintern. Paperback. 136 p. Radcliffe (Abingdon), 2006. £19.95. ISBN 1846190169.

Spinal surgery

AO Spine Manual by Max Aebi, Vincent Arlet, John K Webb. Hardback (2 volumes). 1500 p. Thieme (Stuttgart), 2007. €499.95. ISBN 9783131444813.

Surgical education

MRCS Picture Questions: Book 1 by Tjun Tang, BV Praveen. Paperback. 216 p. Radcliffe (Abingdon), 2006. £27.99. ISBN 1857757491.

MRCS Picture Questions Book 2 by Tjun Tang, BV Praveen. Paperback. 272 p. Radcliffe (Abingdon), 2007. £27.99. ISBN 9781846190544.

Cracking the MRCS Viva: A Revision Guide by Iain Au-Yong, Simon Howarth, Tjun Tang, Robert Sayers. Paperback. 550 p. Hodder Arnold (London), 2007. £24.99. ISBN 9780340906460.

Surgical oncology

Endoscopic Oncology: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Cancer Management by Douglas O Faigel, Michael L Kochman. Hardback. 400 p. Humana (Towota, NJ), 2006. £119.00. ISBN 158829532X.

From Melanocytes to Malignant Melanoma: The Progression to Malignancy by Vincent Hearing, Stanley Leong. Hardback. 696 p. Humana (New Jersey), 2005. £115.00. ISBN 1588294595.

Surgical training

Designing safer rotas for junior doctors in the 48-hour week: Report of a Multidisciplinary Working Group by Nicholas Horrocks, Roy Pounder. Paperback. 24 p. Royal College of Physicians of London (London), 2006. £12.00. ISBN 1860162886.

Trauma and orthopaedic surgery

AO Principles of Fracture Management by Thomas P Rüedi, Richard Buckley, Christopher G Moran. Hardback/DVD. 1106 p. Thieme (Stuttgart), 2007. EUR 399.95. ISBN 9781588905567.

Basic Orthopaedic Sciences: The Stanmore Guide by Manoj Ramachandran. Paperback. 304 p. Hodder Arnold (London), 2007. £34.99. ISBN 9780340885024.

Early Development of Total Hip Replacement by LA Reynolds, EM Tansey. Paperback. 168 p. Wellcome Trust Centre (London), 2007. £6.00. ISBN 9780854841110.

Elastic Stable Intramedullary Nailing (ESIN) in Children by Hand-Georg Dietz, Peter P Schmittenbecher, Theddy Slongo, Kaye E Wilkins. Hardback. 250 p. Thieme (Stuttgart), 2006. €229.95. ISBN 103131433310.

Rheumatoid Arthritis in Practice by Peter Taylor. Paperback. 110 p. RSM Press (London), 2006. £18.95. ISBN 1853156701.

Urology

Advanced Urologic Surgery by Rudolph Hohenfellner, John Fitzpatrick, Jack McAninch. Hardback. 508 p. Blackwell (Oxford), 2005. £149.50. ISBN 1405122137.

Male Sexual Function: A Guide to Clinical Management (2nd edn) by John J Mulcahy. Hardback. 504 p. Humana (Towota, NJ), 2006. £100.00. ISBN 1588297470.

Prostate Cancer (2nd edn) by Leland WK Chung, William B Isaacs, Jonathan W Simons. Hardback. 560 p. Humana (Towota, NJ), 2007. £107.50. ISBN 9781588296962.

Urinary Stone Diseases: The Practical Guide to Medical and Surgical Management by Marshall L Stoller, Maxwell V Meng. Hardback. 696 p. Humana (Towota, NJ) 2007. £115.50. ISBN 9781588292193.

Vascular surgery

The Evidence for Vascular Surgery (2nd edn) by Jonothan J Earnshaw, John A Murie. Hardback. 270 p. tfm (Shrewsbury), 2007. £59.95. ISBN 1903378451.

Vascular access Simplified by Alun H Davies, Christopher P Gibbens. Paperback. 246 p. tfm (Shrewsbury), 2007. £30.00. ISBN 9781903378526.

Venous disease Simplified by Alun H Davies, Tim A Lees, Ian F Lane. Paperback. 248 p. tfm (Shrewsbury), 2006. £30.00. ISBN 1903378257.

Women's Vascular Health by Ian A Greer, Jeffrey Ginsberg, Charles D Forbes. Hardback. 486 p. Hodder Arnold (London), 2007. £95.00. ISBN 9780340809976.