Book Reviews – Miscellaneous

Reviews by Del Meyer, MD

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

• Ashley and the Mooncorn People  by Jared James Grantham, MD, 2002.
• A Time For Freedom  by Lynne Cheney, 2005.
• The Best of Medical Humor – A Collection of Articles, Essays, Poetry, and Letters Published in the Medical Literature, Second Edition  by Howard J Bennett, MD, 1997.
• The Forgotten Plague – How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won and Lost  by Frank Ryan, M.D., 1993.
• FSTR (Faster)  – The Acceleration of Just about Everything  by JMS GLCK (James Gleick), 2000.
• God, Guns, & Rock ‘n’ Roll  by Ted Nugent, 2000.
• The Greatest Benefit to Mankind – A Medical History of Humanity  by Roy Porter, 1997.
• Heroes –From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and DeGaulle, by Paul Johnson, 2007.
• The Innovator’s Dilemma – The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business  by Clayton M. Christensen, DBA, 1997.
• Light in the Darkness   – A Guide to Recovery  by St. George Lee, MD, 2000.
• Medical Wit and Wisdom –  From Hippocrates to Groucho Marx  compiled by Jess M Brallier, 1997.
• Saving Childhood – Pr otecting Our Children from the National Assault on Innocence  by Michael Medved and Diane Medved, PhD, 1998.
• Snitch Culture – How Citizens are Turned into the Eyes and Ears of the State  by Jim Redden, 2000.
• The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession & the Making of a Vast Industry  by Paul Starr. Basic Books, 1983.
• Tending Lives – Nurses on the Medical Front  by Echo Heron, RN, 1998.
• The Tipping Point – How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference  by Malcolm Gladwell, 2000.
• The War Against Boys – How Misguided Feminism is Harming our Young Men  by Christina Hoff Sommers, 2000.
• We the People – The Story of Our Constitution  by Lynne Cheney, 2008.
• The Wheel of Life – A Memoir of Living and Dying  by Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross, MD, 1997.

Reviews by John Loofbourow, MD

These book reviews have appeared in Sacramento Medicine.

• God’s Equation – Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe  by Amir Aczel.
• Guns, Germs and Steel – The Fates of Human Societies  by Jared Diamond, 1999.
• The Iliad and the Odyssey  by Homer.
• The Man Who Loved Only Numbers – The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth  by Paul Hoffman, 1999.
• Mathematics for the Millions – How to Master the Magic of Numbers  by Lancelot Hogben.
• The Monkey in the Mirror – Essays on the Science of What makes Us Human  by Ian Tattersall, 2002.
• Walden  by Henry Thoreau.