Month: May 2014

Author: Roger R. Hock, PhD Publisher: Pearson – 663 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram An interesting beginning to this unique book is a timeline of human sexual history that spans about a century and a half, from 1846 to 2011. Photos relating to some of the milestones are provided in this history depicted on the inside front cover and first page: Alfred Kinsey and his associates, sometime around the publication of his book Sexual Behavior and the Human Male in 1948; the cover of the first issue of Playboy magazine in 1953; Drs. William Masters and Virginia Johnson,...

Authors: Carole Wade, PhD; and Carol Tavris, PhD Publisher: Pearson – 501 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This book is unusual in the sense that the authors present psychology as a “fun” science that tells us a lot about ourselves and others’ behavior. Unlike chemistry and physics for example, they show in concrete ways that psychology is very much a part of our daily lives, with the exception of those who are chemists and physicists, of course. And these professionals too will find the study of psychology empowering in their lives, if they chose to. In the main,...

Volume Editor: Ashley Grossman, MD; Senior Editors: J. Larry Jameson, MD; Leslie J. De Groot, MD; Ashley Grossman, MD; Harald Juppner, MD; David de Kretser, MD; John C. Marshall, MD; Shlomo Melmed, MD; John T. Potts, Jr., MD; Gordon C. Weir, MD     Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 291 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Forty specialists in endocrinology and related fields from the United States, Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and United Kingdom have contributed a large amount of material on the adrenal gland for this book. There are a lot of books out there on endocrinology but few that...

Editors: Anthony Yachnis, MD and Marie L. Rivera-Zengotita, MD Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 351 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book is a practical review of a range of nervous system diseases, with their clinical and pathological features presented and discussed. The editors write that their purposes in developing this volume are: To provide quick reference via bulleted summaries of key facts that are supported by multiple representative photographs on topics of interest in the major areas of neuropathology To provide rapid access to a range of nervous system disorders for trainees and practitioners It is essentially a...

Editor: Mark A. Sperling, MD Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 1061 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book provides basic science as well as clinical-practice information and valuable insight from world-renowned specialists on many issues in pediatric endocrinology. It has been written for pediatricians and endocrinologists, as well as for medical students and fellows. Fifty-eight experts in the United States and Canada, Israel, Slovenia, Switzerland, and United Kingdom have contributed content to this fourth edition of this definitive resource on various aspects of this medical specialty to this voluminous text of over a thousand pages. Key developments in the...