The Union Bookshelf regularly calls special
attention to books written by alumni and other members of
the Union community. If you're an author and would
like to be featured, please send us a copy of the book or
the jacket as well as your publisher's news release.
Our address is Public Relations Office, Union College,
Schenectady, N.Y. 12308-3169.
Leslie H. Sobin
'55, M.D.
The Last Examination: The
Prosecutor's Guide to the Autopsy is the third
book of verse by Leslie Sobin, chief of gastrointestinal
pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in
Washington, D.C. His previous books were Tales of the
Ampulla of Vater and A Pathology Primer in Verse.
Robert Sherwin
'63, M.D.
The fifth edition of the textbook,
Ellenberg and Rifkin's Diabetes Mellitus
(coedited with Daniel Porte, Jr.), is reviewed in the
Journal of the American Medical Association's June
11, 1997, issue. Robert Sherwin is professor of
medicine at Yale University.
Michele Paludi
'76, Ph.D.
An expert in academic and workplace
sexual harassment issues, Michele Paludi, an adjunct
professor of psychology at Union, is the author of
several recent books, including:
— Workplace Sexual
Harassment (with Anne C. Levy of Michigan State
University), a text addressing the legal issues,
incidence, psychological dimensions and explanatory
models of sexual harassment in the workplace. The book
offers ways to assist organizations confront and prevent
harassment as well as psychotherapeutic techniques for
families and friends of sexually-harassed individuals.
— Sexual Harassment on
College Campuses, Abusing the Ivory Power, edited
by Paludi. This new edition takes into account new laws
and work published since the first edition concerning
training of personnel at colleges and universities in
sexual harassment issues.
— Academic and Workplace
Sexual Harassment: A Resource Manual (with
Richard B. Barickman), the first comprehensive resource
manual for understanding and preventing sexual harassment
in the community and workplace. The book includes
workshop techniques for training programs as well as
audiovisual and teaching techniques.
— Ivory Power: Sexual
Harassment on Campus, edited by Paludi, discusses
the interrelationship between racism and sexism on campus
and the legal issues involved in harassment cases, as
well as suggestions on how to handle complaints.
— Sex & Gender: The
Human Experience (with James A. Doyle) includes
guidelines for conducting sex-fair studies and discusses
several social institutions that play a role in
understanding sex and gender — language, education and
work, religion and politics, and health fields.
Janet Sasson
Edgette '78
Heads Up! gives
advice to equestrian athletes on how to maximize their
potential in competing, riding, training, and dealing
with horses in general. Edgette, a clinical and sports
psychologist in private practice in Chester County, Pa.,
has a monthly column in Practical Horseman
magazine, gives frequent seminars on equestrian sports
psychology, and regularly contributes to professional
journals. Among her clients are some of the nation's most
successful competitive riders. She also co-directs the
Milton H. Erickson Institute of Philadelphia.