AMWA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDS COMPETITION — 2006
(For books published in 2005)

FIRST PLACE WINNERS

Physicians Category 
Title: An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine
Authors/Editors: S.V. Mahadevan, MD and Gus Garmel, MD
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Allied Health Category
Title: Phlebotomy Handbook: Blood Collection Essentials
Authors/Editors: Diana Garza, EdD, MT and Kathleen Becan-McBride, EdD, MT
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall

Trade Category
Title: Living With Lymphoma
Authors/Editors: Elizabeth M. Adler, PhD
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press


HONORABLE MENTION

Physicians Category 
Title: Mayo Clinic Analgesic Pathway:
Peripheral Nerve Blockade for Major Orthopedic Surgery
Authors/Editors: Robert L. Lennon
Publisher: Mayo Clinic Scientific Press

Physicians Category
Title: Mollison’s Blood Transfusion in Clinical Medicine
Authors/Editors: David Anstee and Harvey Klein
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Trade Category
Title: American Cancer Society’s Complete Guide to Living With Colorectal Cancer
Authors/Editors: Levin, Ades, Brooks, Crane, Hoff, Limburg, and Rothenberger
Publisher: American Cancer Society

Trade Category
Title: Living Through Breast Cancer
Authors/Editors: Carolyn M. Kaelin, MD and Francesca Coltrera
Publisher: McGraw Hill


SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Physicians Category 
Title: Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation, and Typhus
Authors/Editors: Dr. Naomi Baumslag
Publisher: Praeger Press