The long-standing debate over whether extrinsic rewards undermine intrinsic motivation and the more recent debate regarding the costs and benefits of performance goals are central issues addressed in Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: The Search for Optimal Motivation and Performance, edited by Carol Sansone and Judith Harackiewicz. The book contains chapters from a number of the most prominen...

The editorial team of The Gerontologist has been committed to providing its readers with up-to-date information about recently published books focused on gerontological science and practice since the inception of the journal in 1961. The initial issue of the journal included a list of recently published books. The first formal book review (of You Can't Count on Dying, by Natalie Harris Cabot) w...

PURPOSE To describe and discuss the processes used to write scholarly book reviews for publication in peer-reviewed journals and to provide a recommended strategy and book appraisal worksheet to use when conducting book reviews. METHODS A literature search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and the Index to Chiropractic Literature was conducted in June 2009 using a combination of controlled vocabula...

Dear Readers of the Book Reviews, It is now some 10 years since I became the book review editor of Dermatopathology: Practical & Conceptual. When that journal closed and became Dermatology Practical & Conceptual, I stayed on as the editor of the book reviews. It has been quite a run; I have edited some 40 reviews across both journals, and I hope it has kept you, the reader and the central purpo...

Medical physicists are often involved in the didactic training of graduate students, residents (both physics and physicians), and technologists. As part of continuing medical education, we are also involved in maintenance of certification projects to assist in the education of our peers. As such, it is imperative that we remain current concerning available educational resources. Medical physics...

becomes freely available at members' libraries, people may no longer join to receive a discounted journal subscription. In this case, other member bene¢ts become all the more important. We o¡er several electronic services for society members, many via Websites that we have created and maintain for our society partners. These include password-protected online problem solving, data sets, book rev...

http://journals.cambridge.org/bjh This leading international journal publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. BJHS papers make important and lively contributions to scholarship and the journal has been an essential library resource for more than...

It is every Editor’s dream that articles in ‘their’ journal serve a wide population of interested readers and that some papers are so challenging that they are actually followed up by readers’ reactions. Consequently, the Editors of the current issue of Perspectives on Medical Education are proud of the issue you see on your screen now (or even hold in your hands)! We have six full papers for y...

A book review on Big History and the Future of Humanity The book " Big History and The Future of Humanity " [1] deals with the so-called big history, an approach that places the standard historical analysis in the wider framework of the entire evolution of the universe. It aims at uncovering patterns that could not be appreciated " if one were to examine only smaller portions of our past, " pag...