Month: October 2015

Book Review: Neurology of Sexual and Bladder Disorders

(Book 130 – Part of the Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 3rd Series) Editors: David B. Vodusek; and Francois Boller Series Editors: Michael J. Aminoff; Francois Boller; and Dock F. Swaab Publisher: Elsevier – 503 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Discussion of sexual disorders remains extremely difficult for both patients and doctors, write two of the editors, Michael J. Aminoff and Dick F. Swaab in the Foreword. This is so even as sexuality, and the reproduction that it leads to, is critical to the survival of our species. Having children is also an important component of a fulfilled life...

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Book Review: Current Therapy in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, 2nd edition

Editors: Juan A. Asensio, MD; and Donald D. Trunkey, MD Publisher: Elsevier – 782 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book is one of the better-known ones on trauma care. Dr. Jeffrey T. Sugimoto, the chief of cardiothoracic thoracic surgery at Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha who wrote the Foreword in this book, writes that the editors of this volume Drs. Asensio and Trunkey are “two of the well-recognized names in trauma.” Along with those two editors, a large number of specialists and experts in trauma and critical care wrote the contents of this book: 281...

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