Achieving Excellence in Medical Education: book review

  This book by Richard Gunderman was just reviewed in the November 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. I looked around and found some more reviews of the book: Gunderman, Richard B. Achieving Excellence in Medical Education, New York: Springer, 2006. ISBN-13 978-1-84628-296-6, ISBN-10 1-84628-296-9 From the publisher:  A goldmine of theoretical [...]

Selling Sickness [book reviews]

    I just read a review of Selling Sickness  (published in the July/August issue of the ACP Journal Club) and thought you might be interested to read this and other reviews of this book.  [Link to more reviews at the end of this post.]  See also A Collection of Articles on Disease Mongering;  Ethics and the [...]

Adult Education: Three reviews from the Adult Education Quarterly

The May 2006 issue of Adult Education Quarterly includes reviews of three books on adult education: Simone Conceição.  Book Review: Philosophical Foundations of Adult Education. Adult Education Quarterly 2006 56: 223-224. Philosophical Foundations of Adult Education, by John L. Elias and Sharan B. Merriam (3rd ed.). Malabar, FL: Krieger, 2005. 286 pp., $39.50 (hardcover). DOI [...]

Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry: two new books

New reviews of these two books appear in the July 27 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. See the excerpts below. Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry. Edited by Michael A. Santoro and Thomas M. Gorrie, 492 pp, $40, ISBN 0-521-85496-2, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2005. JAMA Review       JAMA excerpt: [full text [...]

How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine [JAMA book review]

This book review was just published in the May 3 issue of JAMA: Moore, Donald E. Jr. How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine, by Kathryn Montgomery, 246 pp, $39.50, ISBN 0-19-518712-1, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2006. [book review]  JAMA 2006; 295:2080-2081. JAMA extract: Kathryn Montgomery, PhD, has written a [...]