Book Reviews

    

  
   This Quarter   
    Spring 2008 selection pending.
   
   Archives*
   Winter 2008
    The Troubled Pregnancy by J.K. Mason, MD, LL.D
    Legal Wrongs and Rights in Reproduction
    Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 317, 2007

   Autumn 2007
   Better by Atul Gawande, MD
    A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
    Metropolitan Books, New York,  pp.273, 2007

   Summer 2007
   How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD
   Houghton Mifflin Co., New York, 2007

    Autumn 2006
   After Harm by Nancy Berlinger
    Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness
    Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 156 pp. (with notes and index), 2005
   
    Summer 2006
    Hope or Hype by Richard A. Deyo, M.D. and Donald L. Patrick, Ph.D.
    The Obsession With Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises
    Amacom Books, New York: pp. 335 (with notes and index), 2005.
   
    Spring 2006
   Generation Rx by Greg Critser
   How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies
    Houghton Mifflin Company, New York: pp. 308, 2005.

   Winter 2006
   Inside the FDA by Fran Hawthorne
   The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat
    John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ: pp. 233, 2005.
  
   Autumn 2005
   Cracking More Cases by Henry Lee with Thomas O'Neill
   The Forensic Science of Solving Crimes
    Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY: pp. 313, 2004.

   Bloodsworth by Tim Junkin
   The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA
    Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, NC: pp. 294, 2004.

   Summer 2005
   Evidence of Harm by David Kirby
    Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
    St. Martin's Press, New York: pp. 460, 2005.

   Spring 2005   
   On The Take by Jerome P. Kassirer, MD
    How Medicine's Complicity With Big Business Can Endanger Your Health.
    Oxford University Press, New York: pp. 251, 2005.

   Winter 2005
   Powerful Medicines by Jerry Avorn, MD
    The Benefits, Risks and Costs of Prescription Drugs
    Alfred A. Knopf, New York: pp. 448, 2004.

   Autumn 2004
   Delivering Doctor Amelia By Dan Shapiro,
   Harmony Books: pp.257, 2003.

   Summer 2004
   American Law in the 20th Century
   By Lawrence M. Friedman, Yale University Press, New Haven: pp.722, 2002.

   Spring 2004
   Internal Bleeding
    The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes
   By Robert M. Wachter, M.D. and Kaveh G. Shojania, M.D., Rugged Land,
   New York: pp. 441., 2004.

   Winter 2004 
    War Against the Weak
    Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
   By Edwin Black, Four Walls Eight Windows, New York/London: pp.550, 2003.

   Autumn 2003
   Blood Evidence: How DNA is Revolutionizing the Way We Solve Crimes
   By Dr. Henry C. Lee and Frank Tirnady; Cambridge, MA, Perseus Publishing: pp.418, 2003.

   Summer 2003
  The Rule of Lawyers
   By Walter K. Olson; New York, St. Martin's Press:  pp.358, 2003.          

   * No selections for winter and spring 2007.