About Keynote Books
Keynote … books in a higher register
Keynote Books is the brainchild of Paul E. Stepansky, Ph.D., historian, editor, and managing director of The Analytic Press, Inc. from 1984-2006. The imprint is dedicated to general-interest titles in medicine and society, including memoirs of noteworthy clinicians, researchers, and other “quiet heroes” whose lives intersect with history and serve to illuminate the ever-changing cultural landscape of American health care.
Keynote Books is a tiny venture with grand aspirations. It seeks to fly in the face of mind-numbing corporatized publishing with a handful of titles that are publication-worthy in the strong, traditional sense of this term. It follows that Keynote is not interested in hot-button topics. We are satisfied with titles that are original in conception, lucidly and accessibly written, pleasurable to read, and illuminating of health-related issues that concern all of us.
The United States Marine Corp is looking for a few good men and women. Keynote Books is looking for a few good ideas that will materialize into a few edifying books worth the trees that made their printing possible.
To learn more about Keynote and to receive notification of new releases, write us at: Keynote Books, LLC, P.O. Box 43238, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043, or email: info@keynote-books.com.
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New Releases from Keynote Books
Chaos Unbound
by Elaine V. Siegel
A young Jewish girl’s coming of age in the eye of the Nazi storm, a memoir both harrowing and uplifting that “recreates the child’s view of, and emotional reactions to, the Nazi coming to power with astuteness and clarity” (Susannah Heschel, Ph.D.).
The Last Family Doctor
by Paul E. Stepansky
The story of a remarkable family physician, “the doctor we all deserve” (Daniel Carlat, M.D.), whose life provides a “unique and compelling account of mid-twentieth-century American medical practice” (Howard Kushner, Ph.D.) and opens to “extraordinary acute reflections” (John Burnham, Ph.D.) on major changes in American medicine in the closing decades of the 20th century.
Talking with Doctors, Expanded 2nd Edition
by David Newman
A powerful meditation on the doctor-patient relationship in the context of life-threatening illness, the book that “should be required reading for all medical students” (William Silen, M.D.) and “included in the continuing education of every physician” (David Gordon, M.D.).