Book Review: Textbook of Pain—Fourth Edition.

Book Review: 'Teaching and Researching Writing (3rd Edition)'

Writing has an overarching significance in our lives. We experience this significance in our personal, professional and social activities. Much of who we are and who we wish to become in our social life, in the professional community we belong to and even in the privacy of our individual life is the outcome of what we write and how we write. We are often judged and evaluated by our control of i...

Book Review: Food: The Chemistry of Its Components: 6th Edition

A SHORT TEXTBOOK OF SURGERY (4th Edition)

IT is welcome to see a fourth edition of this useful textbook for students. The authors are to be congratulated on bringing out a further edition without notably increasing the length of this book, although their efforts to condense their material do lead to some difficulty. For example, on page 92, the 13 lines devoted to the natural history of breast cancer would almost certainly lead the stu...

Oxford Textbook of Medicine. Second Edition

Atlas of Macular Diseases. Diagnosis and Treatment by Dr. Donald Gass presents a detailed and thorough review of diseases affecting the macula. The author begins by presenting the normal macula, its anatomy, histology, physiology, and angiographic findings. A new chapter discussing "the principles'of interpretation of fluorescein angiograms as they relate to the basic pathophysiologic and histo...

Stewart's Textbook of Acid-Base, 2nd edition

This multi-author textbook provides a comprehensive understanding of the Stewart approach to acid-base. The book consists of 30 chapters, grouped under three sections. Section 1 is a reproduction of Peter Stewart's original work (9 chapters), section 2 is a detailed primer on quantitative acid-base chemistry (8 chapters), and the third section deals with the clinical applications of the Stewart...