Dartmouth Authors
Edward S. Sternick, assistant professor of clinical medicine and biomedical engineering, ed. Computer Application in Radiation Oncology. University Press of New England, 1976. 559 pp. $15.00. The Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy, which convened in Hanover in August 1974. Anticipating major technological advances during the next five years, the 60 papers in this book project a possible "comprehensive computerbased system . . . that could provide all the computer facilities needed in a modern department of radiation oncology."
George D. Snell '26, Jean Dausset, and Stanley Nathenson. Histocompatability. Academic Press, 1976. 401 pp. $29.50. A study of the reasons why and the processes by which organisms, including the human, reject transplanted organs. The book examines the genetic, the immunologic, and the chemical aspects of the rejection process and examines "how those studies relate to medicine, organ transplantation in man, basic immunology, cell membrane structures, and cancer research." Snell, an eminent geneticist recently retired from the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, was awarded an honorary D. Sc. by Dartmouth in 1974 for lifelong "distinguished research" as "the world's leading authority on the genetics of transplant reactions."
Antony Rodolakis '60 and Nicholas Tetrick. Buying Options: Wall Street on a Shoestring. Reston, 1976. 228 pp. $11.95. At some time in their lives, the authors say, "most people ... dream about making it big in the stock market." Lately that dream has tarnished, and the best hope for the small private investor nowadays, they argue, lies not in trading stocks but rather stock options. And so if you are eying the options market, here, perhaps, is almost all you ever wanted to know but were too uninformed to ask. Heavily freighted with statistics, this is "a book about odds."
Robert P. Sprafkin '62, Arnold P. Goldstein, and H. Jane Gershaw. Skill Training for CommunityLiving: Applying Structural LearningTherapy. Pergamon, 1976. Softcover. 273 pp. $10.95. The authors' statistics are appalling. Of the nearly 250,000 persons in our public mental hospitals, approximately two-thirds are doomed to remain there year after year. Of the remaining one-third, "a large proportion," though quickly discharged, will soon be readmitted and "will often go through a continuing sequence of admission-discharge cycles." This text charts a solution: a learning program within the hospitals to provide "intensive training in those coping and mastery skills necessary for satisfying and effective daily living in the community."
