Textbook of interventional cardiology; 4th 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...

Biochemistry, 4th Edition

Taxing Ourselves, 4th Edition

Psychiatric Diagnosis. 4th Edition

In their preface to the fourth edition of Psychiatric Diagnosis, authors Goodwin and Guze are clear on the limitations of their work: there is little "theory" or "speculation" nor any unproved claims in this review of a dozen psychiatric diagnoses. While this approach leaves a straightforward and complete compendium of current knowledge, it also handicaps the work. Like other texts, it provides...

MEDICAL PARASITOLOGY (4th Edition)

THIS is an excellent book although unhappily the only coloured plates concern artists' impressions of various Plasmodia; there is available, however, a set of 180 colour illustrations which can be obtained separately, but the reviewer did not have the pleasure of secinz these. It must be added that many of the black-and-white illustrations given in the text are of outstanding quality; several m...