Faculty Bibliography

Men and women still differ in matters of health and diet. Statistics on weight, smoking and exercise are compared

Parents of premature babies and their doctors face the repeated agony of life-or-death decisions for the newborn. At hospitals, there is a routine for very premature births as well as deaths

A BRIDGE TO PEACE. By [Kevin M. Cahill]. (Haymarket Doyma, $17.) This is a collection of previously published articles by a physician who has been, as he puts it, ''privileged to share numerous crises with the peoples of the Third World.'' He was in Managua in 1972-73, running the relief program after the earthquake, and then back in Nicaragua many times - in 1987, he made clinical rounds in a tiny hospital at Puerto Cabezas that had been crippled by the United States economic embargo. He toured war-torn Lebanon in 1982: ''Armenian scholars no longer search for God in the Near East School of Theology in West Beirut. . .

A resident in pediatrics recounts being called into the delivery room when a problem is suspected with a baby. Often, the pediatrician must remove meconium-tainted fluid from the infant's lungs

A physician's personal account of working in a pediatric emergency room and having to take care of children who were raped is presented

A personal account of the subtle ways in which medical school can make females feel alienated is presented. The opinion is presented that sexual politics is a very big part of an education in medicine

Benjamin, 3 years old, finally looked up from ''The Cow Who Fell in the Canal.'' ''Stand up, papa, stand up!'' he yelled to [Larry], who was inching down the pyramid in an extremely undignified sitting position. ''Faster, papa, faster!'' We went to southeastern Mexico for a two-week winter vacation and planned to do a lot of sightseeing. We had considered the beach resorts - Cancun, Cozumel, Isla Mujeres -but one thing we discovered two years ago, when we took Benjamin to Martinique, was that a beach vacation in the Caribbean was not quite the sublimely relaxing experience that it was supposed to be. ''Have you seen him?'' ''Is he in the water?'' ''What's he eating?'' ''Is that a jellyfish?'' ''I think his nose is burning.''