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17 November 2000
Word comes to us that the British Medical Association has
included the recent book by Donald Caton, MD, What a Blessing She Had Chloroform
in its prestigious 2000 list of prize winning and recommended medical books...Dr.
Caton's book is one of the titles "Commended" in the "Basis of
Medicine" category...all books in that category are listed below and more information
about the BMA annual book awards follows....
AJ Wright, MLS
Dept of Anesthesiology Library
School of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham
ajwright@uab.edu
Basis of Medicine
First prize
Evidence-based medicine: how to practice and teach EBM
2nd ed. David L Sackett; Sharon E Straus; W Scot Richardson; William Rosenberg; R Brian
Haynes. Harcourt Health Sciences, 2000. £18.95
Highly commended
William Osler: a life in medicine. Michael Bliss. OUP, 1999. £27.50
Commended
A dictionary of the history of medicine. Anton Sebastian. Parthenon Publishing Group,
1999. £58.00
What a blessing she had chloroform: the medical
response to the pain of childbirth from 1800 to the present. Donald Caton Yale University
Press, 1999. £20.00
Thursday 16 Nov 2000 -
issued by BMA
London Office
BMA Medical Book Competition 2000 Winners
Fifty of the best books and information sources in medicine have been
awarded prizes in the prestigious British Medical Association's Medical Book Competition
2000. The winners include publications from popular medicine and patient information
categories, as well as detailed clinical works for doctors.
The 2000 BMA Medical Book of the Year Award is The growing hand: diagnosis and management of the upper extremity in
children, edited by Amit Gupta, Simon Kay and Luis Scheker and
published by Mosby in 2000.
It is the first attempt to provide a standard, comprehensive view of this
specialist field and both reviewers and judging panel felt that it had succeeded
completely in doing so. The book opens with a short introduction to the evolution of the
human hand, covers the diagnosis and treatment of inherited and other conditions and ends
with a useful section dealing with particular issues arising in the developing world and
with three papers covering important areas for the future. The growing hand also won the first prize in the
Surgery and anaesthesia section.
A total of 50 prizes (9 First Prizes, 21 Highly Commended and 20 Commended
Prizes) have been awarded from a total entry of 332. The number of entries was 15% higher
than the previous year.
The prize of BMA Medical Journalist of the Year goes to Jo
Revill, until recently health correspondent of the London Evening Standard. Nigel Duncan,
the head of the BMA press office writes that "she has produced a consistently high
standard of reporting for many years on health matters relating to the capital and across
the country and her recent series of articles on health systems in other countries was
particularly illuminating".
The BMA Patient Information Award (PIA) was established in 1997 to
encourage excellence in the production of patient information. Interest in the award
continues to grow: 12 awards were made from a total entry of 153. This year, for the first
time, separate awards have been made to printed materials and to web sites.
The winner of the PIA printed section is Smoking and your heart: information for people who already have coronary
heart disease, and their families and friends, produced by the
British Heart Foundation. In 32 small-format pages it packs a great deal of information
about the effects of smoking and how to quit, ending with contact information for those
looking for help to stop smoking.
A new PIA award acknowledges the increasing importance of patient sites on
the world wide web. Thirty-seven web sites were entered for the pilot award for web sites
primarily aimed at consumers. The first prize was awarded to <http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/> produced by the US National Cancer Institute.
Reviewers and judging panel alike were highly impressed with the way the intuitive, clear
structure of the site is enhanced by an elegant clean site design. The information
provided is of good quality and is enhanced by references which link to the PDQ
bibliographic database and to other good-quality sites.
In the Popular Medicine category, first prize goes to Small steps forward: using games and activities to help your pre-school
child with special needs by Sarah Newman from James Kingsley
Publishers. In the Mental Health category the first prize is aimed at GPs. Called Treating people with anxiety and stress: a practical guide for
primary care the book is by Greg Wilkinson, Bruce Moore and Pascale
Moore and is published by Radcliffe Medical Press.
For the first time the 2000 competition includes an award sponsored by BMJ
Books for the best entry produced by a membership-based association of medical or health
professionals. For this award, the emphasis is placed on the quality of the information,
content and its relevance to the working clinician. The inaugural BMJ Books Non-Commercial
Publication Award is made to the Royal College of Physicians for their National clinical guidelines for stroke
which was produced by Professor Derick Wade and the Intercollegiate Working Party for
Stroke.
Bob McKee, the Chief Executive of the UK Library Association, presented the
awards at a ceremony at BMA House in London on the evening of Wednesday November 15 2000.
Full details on all the prize winners are attached. Information on how to
enter titles for the 2001 competition, may be obtained from Helen Elwell, the
competition's associate director, at the BMA Library (tel: 020 7383 6582; fax 020 7383
2544; email helwell@bma.org.uk) or from the Library's website at: http://library.bma.org.uk/
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