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Images of Memorable Cases: 50 Years at the Bedside

by Herbert L. Fred, MD, MACP, and Hendrik A. van Dijk

Publication Date: October 15, 2007

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To order quantities of 25 books or more, contact fred.moody@rice.edu.

Rice University Press is proud to announce the publication of Images of Memorable Cases: 50 Years at the Bedside, by Herbert L. Fred, MD, MACP, and Hendrik A. van Dijk. Written by one of the nation’s best-known medical educators, Images of Memorable Cases is a study of the art and science of medical diagnosis as practiced in traditional bedside medicine. The book includes more than 200 color images.

Readers are invited to examine the cases presented—some rare, many extraordinary, and every one instructive—and make their own diagnosis before turning the page to find Dr. Fred’s diagnosis. “With few exceptions,” Dr. Fred writes, “these images are related to patients I have personally seen during my 53 years (and counting) as a full-time medical educator. They are presented non-thematically and as unknowns (the way patients typically show up in the hospital emergency department, the clinic, or the doctor’s office).”

Images of Medical Cases is unique in the history of medical education. Small wonder that Sara E. Walker, MD, MACP, MACR, Professor Emerita at the University of Missouri, writes, “This book should be on the bookshelf of every physician. It is truly a collector’s item.”

“A tour de force in a currently underutilized genre.”

Joseph A. Sapira, author of The Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis

“This wonderful book should be in the library of every hospital, department of medicine, and teacher of internal medicine.”

Paxton Howard, Jr., MD, Professor of Medicine and Humanities in Medicine, Scott & White Clinic, Temple, Texas

“This is the best medical book I’ve ever read.”

Steven Hawes, MD, Director of Primary Care and Subspecialty Medicine, Dorn Veterans Administration Medical Center, Columbia, S.C.

About Rice University Press

Board of Directors

Rice University has re-launched its university press as an all-digital operation. Using the open-source e-publishing platform Connexions, Rice University Press is returning from a decade-long hiatus to explore models of peer-reviewed scholarship for the 21st century. The technology offers authors a way to use multimedia — audio files, live hyperlinks or moving images — to craft dynamic scholarly arguments, and to publish on-demand original works in fields of study that are increasingly constrained by print publishing.

Rice's digital press operates just as a traditional press, up to a point. Manuscripts will be solicited, reviewed, edited and resubmitted for final approval by an editorial board of prominent scholars. But rather than waiting for months for a printer to make a bound book, Rice University Press's digital files will instead be run through Connexions for automatic formatting, indexing and population with high-resolution images, audio and video and Web links.

Users of Rice University Press titles are able to view the content online for free or, thanks to Connexions' partnership with on-demand printer QOOP, order printed books in every style from softbound black-and-white on inexpensive paper to leather-bound, full-color hardbacks on high-gloss paper.

Authors published by Rice University Press retain the copyrights for their works, in accordance with Connexions' licensing agreement with Creative Commons. Additionally, because Connexions is open-source, authors will be able to update or amend their work, easily creating a revised edition of their book.

In the coming months, Rice University Press will appoint an editorial board in one or two academic disciplines that are especially constrained by the current print model. Over time, Rice University Press will focus on:

Putting out original scholarly work in fields particularly impacted by the high costs and distribution models of the printed book. One such field is art history, in which printing costs are exceptionally high. Over the years, many university presses have slashed the number of art history titles, severely limiting younger scholars' prospects of publication. Rice University Press has identified art history as a field that would benefit immediately and therefore it will be the press's first area of major effort.
Fostering new models of scholarship: With the rise of digital environments, scholars are increasingly attempting to write book-length studies that use new media -- images, video, audio and Web links -- as part of their arguments.
Providing more affordable publishing for scholarly societies and centers: Often disciplinary societies and smaller centers, especially in the humanities, publish annual reports, reflections on their field of study or original research resulting from grants. For smaller organizations, the printing costs of these publications are prohibitive. Rice University Press will partner with organizations to provide more affordable publishing.
Partnering with large university presses: In the wake of rising production costs and overhead, many university presses have closed or reduced the number of titles they publish, especially in the humanities and social sciences. As a result many peer-reviewed, high quality books are waiting on backlog. Rice University Press will work with selected university publishers to inexpensively publish approved works.
Publishing a small, selected number of titles pertaining to medical diagnostics: Books on medical diagnostics are often populated with many color images which are expensive to print, making the cost of these fundamental resources quite high. The Rice Press will publish a small number of these works as digital objects in order to provide a far greater degree of access to physicians and patients, especially in developing areas of the world, at much reduced costs.

Interested in submitting a book proposal? Review Rice University Press's submission guidelines.

Board of Directors

W. Joseph King, Chairman
President
QOOP Publishing

Charles J. Henry, Publisher
President
Council on Library and Information Resources

Richard Baraniuk
Victor E. Cameron Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rice University

James Hilton
Vice President and CIO
Professor of Psychology
University of Virginia

Michael Jensen
Director, Electronic Publications
The National Academies

Stanley N. Katz
Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University

Michael Keller
University Librarian
Publisher, Stanford University Press
Stanford University

Sallie Keller-McNulty
Dean, George R. Brown School of Engineering
Rice University

Susan Kornfield
Bodman LLP
Ann Arbor, MI

Eugene H. Levy
Howard R. Hughes Provost and Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Rice University

Cindy Lindsay
Trustee Emeritus
Rice University

Robert Maxfield
Board of Trustees
Rice University

Jerome McGann
University Professor and John Stewart Bryan Professor of English
University of Virginia

Stephen J. Nichols
James M. Beall Professor of French and the Humanities
Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Johns Hopkins University

Joel Thierstein (ex officio)
Executive Director
Connexions
Rice University

Christopher Warnock
President
Ebrary

Steven Wheatley
Vice President
American Council of Learned Societies

Gary Wihl
Francis Moody Newman Professor in Humanities
Dean, School of Humanities
Rice University

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President and CEO
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