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New Books Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine by John Harley Warner, Ph.D., professor of history of medicine and American studies, Princeton University Press (N.J.) 1998. Antoine Lavoisier: The Next Crucial Year or, the Sources of His Quantitative Method in Chemistry by Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Ph.D., Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine, Princeton University Press (N.J.) 1998. Biochemistry and Disease: Bridging Basic Science and Clinical Practice by Robert M. Cohn, M.D. '65 and Karl S. Roth, M.D., Williams & Wilkins (Baltimore, Md.) 1996. Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis by Thomas M. Daniel, M.D., B.S. '51, University of Rochester Press (N.Y.) 1997. Chain of Custody by Harry A. Levy, M.D., M.P.H. '82, Random House (N.Y.) 1998. Help Me, I'm Sad: Recognizing, Treating, and Preventing Childhood and Adolescent Depression by David G. Fassler, M.D. '82, Viking Penguin (N.Y.) 1997. Improve, Perfect, and Perpetuate: Dr. Nathan Smith and Early American Medical Education by the late Oliver S. Hayward, M.D., and Constance E. Putnam, University Press of New England (N.H.) 1998. New Treatments in Opiate Dependence edited by Susan M. Stine, M.D., Ph.D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and director of the Opiate Treatment Program and Thomas R. Kosten, M.D., HS '81, professor of psychiatry and chief of psychiatry both at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, Guilford Press (N.Y.) 1997. The Portrait by Charles Atkins, M.D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, St. Martin's Press (N.Y.) 1998. Skin Signs of Systemic Disease by Irwin M. Braverman, M.D. '55, HS '56, professor of dermatology and in the Cancer Center, W.B. Saunders Co. (Penn.) third edition 1997. Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor by Peter A. Selwyn, M.D., associate professor of medicine in the AIDS Program, Yale University Press 1998. Terror in the Medical Office by Norman F. Moon, M.D. '56, Kabel Publishers (Rockville, Md.) 1998. The Therapeutic Narrative: Fictional Relationships and the Process of Psychological Change by Barbara Almond, M.D. '63 and Richard Almond, M.D. '63, HS '66, Praeger Division of Greenwood Publishing Group (Westport, Conn.) 1996. The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820-1885 by John Harley Warner, Ph.D., professor of history of medicine and American studies, Princeton University Press (N.J.) paperback edition 1998.   < top of page >   Originally published in Yale Medicine, Summer 1998. Copyright © 1998 Yale University School of Medicine. All rights reserved.