Month: February 2016

Editors and Authors: Jesse B. Jupiter, MD; Fiesky Nunez, MD; and Renato Fricker, MD Publisher: Thieme – 554 pages, with more than 2,250 illustrations Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is a large, thick, comprehensive text on a wide range of fractures of the hand, from simple to quite complex. It is a book of more than 550 pages with 72 chapters, written and edited by three surgeons, and a fourth author from the United Kingdom, Dr Doug Campbell, who each have decades of experience. This work has a very short table of contents, and we provide it below...

Editors: Joerg Barkhausen, MD; Achim Rody, MD; and Fritz Schaefer, MD Publisher: Thieme – 221 pages, with 486 illustrations Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Digital Breast Tomosynthesis or DBT for short is a relatively new diagnostic process in the detection of breast cancer and other abnormalities. It enables the physician to get a much more detailed view of the interior of the breast, with ‘slices’ of the dense breast parenchyma. DBT is sometimes used in addition to digital mammography to get clearer and more detailed views. It is a low-dose, short x-ray sweep around the compressed breast. DBT combines...

Author:  Jonathan C. Gold Publisher: Columbia University Press – 322 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Vasubandhu was an influential Indian philosopher of Buddhist Abhidharma thought who lived sometime between the 4th and 5th century CE (Common Era in the Julian Calendar). He was a half brother of Asanga and born in Peshawar in pre-partition India, which is now a part of Pakistan. The two of them were the main founders of the Yogacara school of thought after conversion to Mahayana Buddhism. The earliest known biography of Vasubandhu was translated into Chinese by Paramartha (499-569). Vasubandhu’s work Commentary on...

Author: Hans van de Ven Publisher: Columbia University Press – 396 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar China’s Maritime Customs Service was a powerful part of the central government for almost a hundred years, from 1854 to 1952. It started out as a governmental tax collection agency and general information service in 1854, and then over the years expanded its functions into many areas of business, finance and government. Prior to the establishment of this agency which was largely staffed by foreigners, the Treaty of Nanking signed by the Chinese and British governments in 1842 had established the rules...