Required Reading

Women of Dartmouth, if you're confused about the pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy,A Woman Doctors Guide to Hormone Therapy: How to Choose What's Right for You, by Nananda Francette Col '80, M.D. (Tatnuck Bookseller Press), is just what the doctor ordered. Col, who practices general medicine at the New England Medical Center and teaches at the Tufts University School of Medicine, has written an invaluable guide to help patients and their doctors assess whether hormone replacement therapy is the right choice for the individual. She clearly explains the evidence and the statistics. And she provides fill-in worksheets so women can calculate how their own risk factors stack up for breast cancer, heart disease, and the debilitating and often life-threatening hip fractures resulting from osteoporosis. This is a must-read book for all women.

• The Virtues of Liberalism (Oxford University Press) by James Kloppenberg '73, an analysis—and defense—of American liberalism that tracks the complex and rich traditions of political, economic, and social discourse that have informed American democratic culture from the seventeenth century to the present

• Walking By Day (CPR Prompt Corp., Springfield, Mass.) by Don Hutchins '57, a personal account of what began as an attempt to clean up the environment and has since turned into a minefield of bureacracy and litigation