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Fall 2014

Hopkins Reader

Hospital Homicides

If you can give Stephen King the willies, you know you’re doing something right. The author of suspense, science fiction, fantasy and horror blockbusters, King was browsing in a bookstore when he happened to spot a copy of Doing Harm (St. Martin’s Press, 2014), the first novel of Kelly Parsons (HS, fellow and faculty, urology, 1999–2005).

Doing Harm

Kelly Parson
(St.Martin's Press, 2014)

Hospital Homicides

Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry

Susan Lamb has performed an invaluable service to students of medical history, especially those interested in the origins and practice of psychiatry: She has made Adolf Meyer intelligible.

Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry

Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry

S.D. Lamb, Ph.D.
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Diabetes

In 1997, when endocrinologist Christopher Saudek and psychologist and pediatrician Richard Rubin collaborated with registered nurse Cynthia Shump to publish the first edition of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Diabetes, only three states (plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) had diabetes cases affecting 6 percent or more of their populations.

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Diabetes

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Diabetes

Christopher D. Saudek, M.D.; Richard R. Rubin, Ph.D., C.D.E.; Thomas W. Donner, M.D.
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)