Bestsellers in Medicine 

-- Library Journal, 1/15/2009

Bestsellers in Medicine 
April 2008 to date as identified by YBP Library Services

1) Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors
Appignanesi, Lisa
WW Norton
2008. ISBN 0393066630 [9780393066630]. $29.95

2) Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens
Torrey, E. Fuller
WW Norton
2008. ISBN 0393066584 [9780393066586]. $24.95

3) Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research
McGarity, Thomas O.
Harvard University Press
2008. ISBN 0674028155 [9780674028159]. $45.00

4) Easeful Death: Is There A Case For Assisted Dying?
Warnock, Mary
Oxford University Press
2008. ISBN 0199539901 [9780199539901]. $26.00

5) Choosing To Die: Elective Death and Multiculturalism
Prado, C.G.
Cambridge University Press
2008. ISBN 052187484x [9780521874847]. $85.00

6) On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine
Rasmussen, Nicolas
New York University
2008. ISBN 0814776019 [9780814776018]. $29.95

7) Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness: Law and the Behavioral Sciences in Conflict
Erickson, Patricia E.
Rutgers University
2008. ISBN 0813543371 [9780813543376]. $65.00

8) Heredity and Hope: The Case for Genetic Screening
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz
Harvard University Press
2008. ISBN 0674024249 [9780674024243]. $27.95

9) Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder
Healy, David
Johns Hopkins University
2008. ISBN 0801888220 [9780801888229]. $24.95

10) Law, Legitimacy and the Rationing of Healthcare: A Contextual and Comparative Perspective
Syrett, Keith
Cambridge University Press
2007. ISBN 0521857732 [9780521857734]. $115.00

11) Principles of Biomedical Ethics
Beauchamp, Tom L.
Oxford University Press
2009. ISBN 0195335708 [9780195335705]. $49.95

12) Dying To Get High: Marijuana as Medicine
Chapkis, Wendy
New York University
2008. ISBN 0814716660 [9780814716663]. $70.00

13) Observing Bioethics
Fox, Renee C.
Oxford University Press
2008. ISBN 0195365550 [9780195365559] $45.00

14) Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology
Kabat, Geoffrey C.
Columbia University Press
2008. ISBN 0231141483 [9780231141482]. $27.95

15) Dieting, Overweight, and Obesity: Self-Regulation in a Food-Rich Environment
Stroebe, Wolfgang
American Psychological Association
2008. ISBN 1433803356 [9781433803352]. $59.95

16) In Defiance of Death: Exposing the Real Costs of End-of-Life Care
Fisher, Kenneth A.
Praeger
2008. ISBN 0275997103 [9780275997106]. $39.95

17) Control of Childbirth: Women Versus Medicine Through the Ages
Brodsky, Phyllis L.
McFarland
2008. ISBN 0786433620 [9780786433629]. $35.00 

18) National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory, and the Roots of Difference
Boychuk, Gerard William
Georgetown University Press
2008. ISBN 1589012062 [9781589012066]. $26.95

19) Dope: A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from the Nineteenth Century to Today
Rosen, Daniel M.
Praeger
2008. ISBN 0313345201 [9780313345203]. $44.95

20) Portrait of the Brain
Zeman, Adam
Yale University Press
2008. ISBN 0300114168 [9780300114164]. $27.50 

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