Recently Received

Following is a list of books that are still available for review. We welcome readers with suitable expertise to serve as reviewers. If one of these titles interests you, please e-mail JournalBooks@mmc.edu, letting us know you would like to review it and briefly explaining your interest. If you know of a book that would be suitable for review in JHCPU that we have not listed on this page (or in past issues), please let us know that as well. Thank you in advance for your help. We welcome review copies from publishers of books in the area of health and health care for underserved populations, especially in the United States. Publishers are asked to send two review copies.

Ayerza R, Coates W. Chia: The Forgotten Crop of the Aztecs. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2005.

Ball MM, Perkins MM, Whittington CH, et al. Communities of Care: Assisted Living for African American Elders. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Cassel CK. Medicare Matters: What Geriatric Medicine can Teach American Health Care. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.

Geyman J. Shredding the Social Contract: The Privatization of Medicare. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2006.

Huisman F, Warner JH, eds. Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Lowenstein J. The Midnight Meal and Other Essays about Doctors, Patients, and Medicine. New and expanded edition. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Marsden JP. Humanistic Design of Assisted Living. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Metzl JM, Poirier S, eds. Difference and Identity: A Special Issue of Literature and Medicine. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Murphy JW, Pardeck JT. Disability Issues for Social Workers and Human Services Professionals in the Twenty-first Century. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Inc., 2005.

Schuman SH, ed. Agromedicine: Selected Papers from the First Ten Years of The Journal of Agromedicine. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Inc., 2004.

Shankle MD, ed. The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health: A Practitioner's Guide to Service. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2006.

Thiher A. Revels in Madness: Insanity in Medicine and Literature. Paperback edition. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2004.