AMA Books
American Medical Association (AMA) Books
AMA Diabetes Cookbook
Written by the health experts at the AMA, the AMA Diabetes Cookbook provides valuable, up-to-date information for anyone wanting to lead a healthy life. Features 60 life-enriching, delicious meals that are easy to make and work with a diabetic diet. Highlights include:
- Dishes created by AMA diabetes experts to help with weight loss, hit daily nutritional targets and minimize disease risk.
- Easy-to-follow format so you know instantly how the dish can fit into your overall diet.
- Up-to-date information on managing and preventing Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. $14.00 (member)
AMA Healthy Heart Cookbook
With heart disease as the number one killer of both men and women in the United States, the AMA has created the AMA Healthy Heart Cookbook. An indispensable resource for people with heart disease, as well as anyone who wants healthy and delicious recipes, the AMA Healthy Heart Cookbook:
- Contains 60 recipes designed to help prevent and control heart disease.
- Organized by fat count.
- Includes nutritional data in each recipe to help you make healthy meals that are easy to prepare. $14.00 (member)
AMA Type 2 Diabetes Cookbook
The AMA Type 2 Diabetes Cookbook puts the pleasure back into eating for good health. This cookbook:
- Includes 60 recipes created by diabetes experts—created especially for those with Type 2 diabetes.
- Features 75 helpful tips. Control your blood sugar, lose weight and choose from tasty dishes.
- Highlights 3 quick steps—find your own daily calorie and fat gram counts, and use them over the course of a day's eating plan. $14.00 (member)
AMA Hypertension Cookbook
Filled with full-flavored, lowfat and low-calorie recipes, this new cookbook is planned to make controlling your hypertension easier. The easy-to-use recipes are conveniently organized by fat count and each recipe highlights sodium content. The AMA Hypertension Cookbook will help you lose weight, hit daily nutrition targets and control your blood pressure.
- Seventy-five helpful tips for controlling your cholesterol.
- Sixty great low-fat and low-calorie recipes.
- Twelve easy-to-prepare snacks that maintain healthy eating habits throughout the day. $14.00 (member)
A Piece of My Mind
With more than 15,000 copies of the previous edition sold, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) column you've read and loved for years has now been collected into a hardcover edition. A Piece of My Mind features:
- A refreshing and provocative glimpse into the world of the medical professional.
- Essays reflecting the joys and sorrows of practicing medicine through an inspired selection of the wonderful and sometimes poignant stories.
- One hundred essays representing the best of A Piece of My Mind over the past 12 years. $12.00 (member)
AMA Family Medical Guide, 4th Edition
Updated for the first time in 10 years, the AMA Family Medical Guide, 4th Edition contains new and revised information that every family should have. This new edition:
- Walks readers through key health issues.
- Offers authoritative guidance on hundreds of diseases, as well as all the latest tests, treatments, procedures and drugs.
- Includes full-color spreads on important health topics, Q&A sections, first-person case histories and revised symptom flowcharts. $27.00 (member)
The Art of JAMA I and II
Since 1964, the covers of JAMA and the accompanying essays have provided physicians with a refreshing pause in their day. For years, JAMA readers had been urging Dr. Southgate to assemble the covers and essays into a book. These two books are the result of those requests. The Art of JAMA features
- One hundred covers, chosen from issues published between 1974 and 1987.
- Commentary for each cover by M. Therese Southgate, MD.
- Hardbound with jacket, 224 pages.
An enlightening conversation continues with The Art of JAMA II:
- Includes a wide-range of artwork from the world's finest museums, chosen by Dr. Southgate.
- Discover portraits, landscapes, still-life and abstracts from the Italian Renaissance, 19th century French Impressionism, Spanish Realism, Dutch flower painting and modern American art.
- Hardbound with jacket, 200 pages. Art of JAMA I – $29.66, Art of JAMA II – $29.66 or both for $50.00
The Soul of the Physician
Emotionally supportive and encouraging, The Soul of the Physician will inspire and rejuvenate the physicians’ mind and soul. As physicians struggle to deal with feelings of isolation typical of the profession, these stories will help them find a sense of community with their colleagues. This books offers:
- Face-to-face, personal interviews.
- Powerful stories of physicians' personal struggles and triumphs.
- An anecdote to professional and personal loneliness. $27.00 (member)