Books Received

Extract

The Alternative Medicine Handbook.Barrie R. Cassileth, ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998. 340 pp., illus. $25. ISBN 0-393-04566-8.

Dying to Smoke.Wendy Kirchner. Melbourne (FL): Starr Publishing, 1997. 160 pp., illus. $9.95. ISBN 0-9659188-0-7.

Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life.Ira Byock. New York: The Berkeley Publishing Group, 1997. 299 pp., $14. ISBN 1-57322-657-2.

Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy: How Cancer Is Diagnosed, Treated, and Managed Day to Day.Malin Dollinger, Ernest H. Rosenbaum, Greg Cable. Ontario (CA): Somerville House Books Limited, 1997. 824 pp., illus. $49.25. ISBN 0-8362- 3617-3.

Ovarian Cancer: Controversies in Management.David M. Gershenson, William P. McGuire, eds. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1998. 463 pp., illus. $75. ISBN 0-443-07804-1.

PCR in Bioanalysis: Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 92.Stephen J. Meltzer, ed. Totowa (NJ): Humana Press, 1998. 281 pp., illus. $69.50. ISBN 0-89603-497-6.

Prostate Cancer.Marc S. Ernstoff, John A. Heaney, Richard E. Peschel, eds. Malden (MA): Blackwell Science, Inc, 1998. 214 pp., illus. $75. ISBN 0-63204-317-2.