Medicine and Health Policy: New Titles http://www.press.umich.edu/rss/newMedicine.xml New Medicine and Health Policy Books en-us ump.webmaster@umich.edu The Accidental Teacher: Life Lessons from My Silent Son | by Annie Lubliner Lehmann http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1403971 A mother's honest, unvarnished, and touching memoir about the life lessons she learned from a son with autism. What Do Gay Men Want?: An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity | by David M. Halperin http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=296688 A crucial effort to understand gay men's relation to sex and risk without recourse to tainted psychological concepts. The German Patient: Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture | by Jennifer M. Kapczynski http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=327424 A fascinating study of disease as a trope in German debates about the Nazi past. Dying Inside: The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison | by Benjamin Fleury-Steiner http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=17471 A graphic exposé of the inhumane treatment of HIV-positive inmates in U.S. prisons. Beyond Sputnik: U.S. Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century | by Homer A. Neal, Tobin L. Smith, and Jennifer B. McCormick http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=22958 A timely introduction to all facets of U.S. national science policy. The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives | by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=186351 How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense.