New books... New reviews

Wondering what is going on in your specialty? Read the latest book reviews from The Medical Journal of Australia.

• Palliative care. A patient-centered approach.
  Review by Paul A Glare

• Journeys with the black dog. Inspirational stories of bringing depression to heel.
  Review by Kelsey L Hegarty

• Trachoma: a blinding scourge from the bronze age to the twenty-first century.
  Review by Jill E Keeffe

• Goitre monitor. The history of iodine deficiency in Tasmania.
  Review by Peter R Lewis

• The foundations of primary care. Daring to be different.
  Review by Marjan Kljakovic

• Beyond thalidomide. Birth defects explained.
  Review by Brian Freeman

• Inherited metabolic diseases: a guide to 100 conditions.
  Review by Janice M Fletcher

• Skin fitness. Safe and healthy skin care.
  Review Ernest B C Tan

• Worried sick: a prescription for health in an overtreated America
  Review by Melissa Sweet

• The Australian health care system. 3rd ed
  Review by Richard F Southby