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The PLOS Medicine editors and the Maternal Health Task Force announce a new call for papers on the theme of “maternal health is women's health.”

Reviews the book "Understanding Clinical Papers," edited by D. Bowers, A. House and D. Owens.

Reviews the book 'Occasional Papers on Social Administration. No 64. 'How Many Patients? A Study of List Size in General Practice',' by J.R. Butler.

The article reviews the book "How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine," Fourth Edition by T. Greenhalgh.

Reviews the book 'How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence Based Medicine,' by Trisha Greenhalgh.

Reviews the book 'How to Write a Paper,' edited by George M. Hall.

Reviews the book 'Selected Papers of Gordon Holmes,' compiled and edited by C.G. Phillips.

Reviews the book ""The Medicine and Media Contact Zone" Review of Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media," edited by Lester D, Friedman.

The article reviews the book "Selected Papers from the Eighth World Conference on Family Medicine: Montreux 1978."

Presents several medicine-related books that appeared on bestseller lists in January 2001. 'How to Read a Paper,' by T. Greenhalgh; 'Medical Job Interview: Secrets for Success,' by C. Mumford; 'Insider's Guide to Medical Schools,' by I. Urmston, L. Corps, and K.Mears; Others.

Reviews the book `How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-based Medicine,' by Trisha Greenhalgh.

Reviews the book 'Socialized Medicine in Japan: Essays, Papers and Addresses,' by Taro Takemi.

The article reviews the book "Diagnoses, Therapy and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine," by Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz.

Reviews books, journals and other media related to medicine as of May 15, 2002. Details of the child and parent teaching package by the American Diabetes Association Youth Project Team called 'Wizdom: A Kit of Wit and Wisdom for Kids With Diabetes (and Their Parents)'; 'Difficult Diabetes,' edited by Geoffrey V.Gill, John C. Pickup and Gareth Williams; 'Diabetes Management: Complications Risk Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapeutic Options,' by M. Arthur Charles; Others.

Presents reviews of books, journals, and media associated with medical issues such as malaria, surgeons, global health, and genetics.

Reviews several books related to medicine. 'America's First Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology: The Story of Guthrie and Carrel,' by Hugh E. Stephenson, Jr., and Robert S. Kimpton; 'The Nobel Prize in Medicine and the Karolinska Instiute: The Story of Axel key and Alfred Nobel,' by Bengt Ljunggren and George W. Bruyn; 'Sexual Revolution in Early America,' by Richard Godbeer.

Reviews a number of books concerning medicine. 'This Man's Pill: Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill,' by Carl Djerassi; 'Head and Neck Surgery--Otolaryngology,' edited by Byron J. Bailey et al; 'Atlas of Head and Neck Surgery--Otolaryngology,' by Byron J. Bailey et al; 'Diseases of the Kidney and Urinary Tract,' edited by Robert W. Schrier; 'Hepatology Principles and Practice: History, Morphology, Biochemistry, Diagnostics, Clinic, Therapy,' by Erwin Kuntz and Hans-Dieter Kuntz.

Reviews a number of books pertaining to medicine. 'Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown,' by Nayan Shah; 'The HIPAA Handbook: What Your Organization Should Know About the Federal Privacy Standards,' edited by A.J. Brittin and D. Melamed; 'The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine,' edited by Stephen Lock, John M. Last, and George Dunea; 'On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Essays,' edited by Richard Reynolds and John Stone.

Reviews four medical books. 'Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900,' by Roy Porter; 'An Ambulance of the Wrong Colour: Health Professionals, Human Rights and Ethics in South Africa,' edited by Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven, Jeanelle de Gruchy, and Leslie London; 'Medical Ethics in the Ancient World,' by Paul Carrick; 'Disorders of Voluntary Muscle,' edited by George Karpati, David Hilton-Jones and Robert C. Griggs.

Reviews the book "Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia," by Paula A. Michaels.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Canonical Medicine: Gentile da Foligno and Scholasticism,' by Roger French.

Reviews the book 'Les thérapeutiques: savoirs et usages.'

The article reviews the book "The Year Book of Medicine 1979," edited by D. E. Rogers.

The article describes the courses "HUM 207: Informed Decision Making (IDM)" and "HUM 207h: Science, Medicine and Reason (SMR)" being offered at Oregon Institute of Technology.

Reviews the book "Challenging Medicine," by J. Gabe, D. Kelleher and G. Williams.

Reviews the book "Biology, Medicine and Society 1840-1940," edited by C. Webster.

The article reviews the book "The Year in Small Animal Medicine," Vol. 1, edited by J.E. Maddison and M.G. Papich.

Reviews the book "Le corps à l'épreuve: Poisons, remédes et chirurgie: Aspects des pratiques médicales dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen-Âge," edited by Franck Collard and Évelyne Samama.

Reviews several books about medicine. 'FDA: Inside and Out,' by S. Parisian; 'Lessons from a Horse Named Jim: A Clinical Trials Manual From the Duke Clinical Research Institute,' by Margaret B. Liu and Kate Davis; 'Say Little, Do Much: Nurses, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century,' by Sioban Nelson; 'Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States,' by Margaret Humphreys; 'Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult,' by Walton M. Gersony and Marlon S. Rosenbaum.

Reviews several books, a film, and a CD-ROM on medical topics. 'Textbook of Running Medicine,' edited by Francis G. O'Connor; 'Live Free or Die,' a film by Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt; 'Surgery,' edited by John D. Corson and Robin C.N. Williamson; 'Primary Pediatrics Care,' a CD-ROM by Robert A. Hoekelman, Henry M. Adam, Nicholas N. Nelson, Michael L. Weitzman, and Modena Hoover Wilson.

Reviews various books, journals, and media related to medicine. 'Peer Harassment in School: The Plight of the Vulnerable and Victimized,' edited by Jaana Juvonen and Sandra Graham; 'A History of Blood Coagulation,' by Charles A. Owen, Jr. and edited by William L. Nichols and E. J. Walter Bowie; 'From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice,' by Jodi Halpern; Others.

Reviews the book 'Final FRCA: Multiple Choice Questions,' by M.F. Brunner, P.N. Robinson and H. Williams.

Reviews the book "Women's Medicine: A Cross-Cultural Study of Indigenous Fertility Regulation," edited by Lucille F. Newman.

Reviews the book "Medicine and the Five Senses," edited by W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter

Reviews the book 'Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 2: Evolution of Sex,' by W.D. Hamilton.

Reviews the book "Regenerating England: Science, Medicine, and Culture in Inter-War Britain. vol. 60 of Clio Medica," edited by Christopher Lawrence and Anna-K Mayer.

Reviews the book `Manifesting Medicine: Bodies and Machines,' edited by Robert Bud, Bernard Finn and Helmuth Trischler.

Reviews the book 'Altered Conditions: Disease, Medicine and Storytelling,' by J.E. Epstein.

The article reviews the book "Medicine: Essentials of Clinical Practice," 3rd ed., edited by N. G. Levinsky.

Reviews the book "Renal Medicine," by Roger Gabriel.

Reviews the book "Seminars in Community Medicine," vol. 1, "Sociology," edited by Roy M. Acheson and Lesley Aird.

Presents an article on 'Facilitating Elements in Analysis,' by K. Lambert published in the 1973 issue of the 'British Journal of Medical Psychology.'

The article reviews the book "Core Collection of Medical Books and Journals 1997," by Howard Hague.