Reviews the non-fiction books 'Pharmacogenetics--Tailor-made Pharmacotherapy, Proceedings of the 5th Meeting of the Hirosaki International Forum of Medical Science--Pharmacogenetics--Tailor-made Pharmacotherapy, Hirosaki, Japan, 8-9 October 2001,' edited by S. Kaneko, S. Motomura, T. Tateishi, T. Kondo and K.-I. Furukawa.