Surgical Disorders of the Adrenal Gland: Physiologic Background and Treatment

sive treatment of the same subject in previous volumes. However, because it is an update the specialist will want to own the entire series. Familiarity with medicinal chemistry as well as psychopharmacology is expected. The difficulty in keeping up with the whirlwind of research activity in psychopharmacology is exemplified by this book. Although published in 1974, one can expect to be kept only up to date to mid1973, and so the readers of this review must consider a three-year-old volume just being reviewed. Frederick Goodwin and Dennis Murphy provide an excellent summary of biological factors in mental illness. Articles on the antipsychotic agents and the butyrophenones are particularly useful since many compounds which are not discussed elsewhere are discussed in this volume. There is a chapter on EEG applications in psychopharmacology by Max Fink who quotes his own work extensively. The article on the benzodiazepines by Randall and others is useful but has been published in similar form in many other places. An up to date review of antidepressant drugs is provided by Beale and Bopp. Although this is in general a fine volume one caviling comment is necessary. Since this is primarily a review of the literature and is intended to be used as a reference, a bibliographic style which fails to include titles of articles is a painful anachronism which should be corrected. This is a reference book for the specialist who possesses other volumes in the same series. It should be a useful addition to many libraries.