Book Reviews – Patient Issues

Reviews by Del Meyer, MD

Shorter versions have appeared in Sacramento Medicine, Medical Sentinel, California Physician, St. Croix Review.

• The Anatomy of Hope – How People Prevail in the Face of Illness  by Jerome Groopman, 2004.
• Bioterrorism: How You Can Survive  by Russell L Blaylock, MD, 2001.
• Body Bazaar – The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age  by Lori Andrews and Dorothy Nelkin, 2001.
• The Encyclopedia of Mental Health  by Ada P Kahn, MPH, and Jan Fawcett, MD, 1993.
• FSTR (FASTER) – The Acceleration of Just about Everything  by JMS GLCK (James Gleick), 2000.
• How Doctors Think  by Jerome Groopman, 2007.
• The Lost Art of Healing – Practicing Compassion in Medicine  by Bernard Lown, MD, 1998.
• The Measure of Our Days – New Beginnings at Life’s End  by Jerome Groopman, MD, 1997.
• The Midlife Bible – A Woman’s Survival Guide  by Michael P Goodman, MD, 2004.
• Patient Power: The Free-Enterprise Alternative to Clinton’s Health Plan by John C Goodman, PhD and Gerald L Musgrave, PhD, 1994
• Tales from the Bed – On Living, Dying, and Having it All – A Memoir  by Jenifer Estess as told to Valerie Estess, 2004.
• The Wisdom of the Body   by Sherwin B Nuland, MD, 1997.