New Books!

NEW BOOKS----


Cope’s Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen (2010) by William Silen

An updated version of the classic text on the initial approach to abdominal pain.

Call Number :
WI
900
S582c
2010



Critical Care Medicine : the Essentials (2010) by John Marini

The essentials of medical and surgical critical care in an easy-to-read format.

Call Number:
WX
218
M339c
2010



Differential Diagnosis in Primary Care (2009) by Nairah Rasul and Mehmood Syed

From the back cover of the book—this book has been “specifically written with the needs of primary care physicians in mind. It examines the potential causes of common presentations and aims to help the physician differentiate between diseases, using history and examination alone.”

Call Number:
WB
39
R231d
2009



Guidelines for Women’s Health Care : A Resource Manual (2007)

Published by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, whose web site describes the text as drawing “from a wide spectrum of sources to define principles of health care and management for diverse types of delivery systems and to outline the role of ob-gyns and other providers in hospital and office practice”.

Call Number:
WA
309
G9
2007



Management of Common Problems in Obstetrics and Gynecology (2010) edited by T. Murphy

Amazon.com’s product review says, “this practical book provides current and effective evaluation and treatment options currently available for the full spectrum of conditions affecting women. In easy to consume, bite-sized chapters, it ranges from diseases occurring during pregnancy and the perinatal period, through general gynecologic conditions from childhood to old age, gynecologic urology, oncology, reproductive medicine and family planning.”

Call Number:
WP
140
M26
2010



Obstetrics and Gynecology (2010) by Charles Beckmann

The revised 6th edition of the ACOG text.

Call Number:
WP
140
O14
2010



Willing and Unable (2010) by Lori Freedman

An Amazon review says, “Willing and Unable explores the social world where abortion politics and mainstream medicine collide. The author interviewed physicians of obstetrics and gynecology around the United States to find out why physicians rarely integrate abortion into their medical practice. While abortion stigma, violence, and political contention provide some explanation, her findings demonstrate that willing physicians are further encumbered by a variety of barriers within their practice environments.
Structural barriers to the mainstream practice of abortion effectively institutionalize the buck-passing of abortion patients to abortion clinics. As the author notes, "Public-health-minded HMOs and physician practices could significantly change the world of abortion care if they stopped outsourcing it."
Drawing from forty in-depth interviews, the book presents a challenge to a commonly held assumption that physicians decide whether or not to provide abortion based on personal ideology. Physician narratives demonstrate how their choices around learning, doing, and even having abortions themselves disrupt the pro-choice/pro-life moral and political binary.”



And if you missed reading two important books from the fairly recent past, we have newly donated copies of:



Guns, Germs, and Steel : the Fates of Human Societies (2005) by Jared Diamond

This book explores how social evolution favored the dominance of Western civilization. The updated edition includes a new afterword about the modern world.

Call Number:
HM
206
D.48
2005



Plagues and Peoples (1976) by William McNeill

This acclaimed work looks at how disease shaped the course of history.

WC
11.1
M169p
1976



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