Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. A Comprehensive Textbook
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This 164-page book is a multi-authored text covering many of the important topics associated with infections of the newborn. While it may be a bit unfair to compare it with encyclopedic textbooks that cover similar territory, it is worth noting that the current edition of Remington and Klein's Infectious Diseases of the Fetus and Newborn Infant contains 1,122 pages, and Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases contains 2,412 pages, with a major portion of the book devoted to infections of the newborn. Each of these volumes costs over $200 with tax. Given this unfair comparison, it is surprising how much of this very broad area is covered by de Louvois and Harvey. This achievement is possible because they have directed their focus to the most important topics, leaving rarer diseases out, and have condensed each of the topics to offer only the highlights. For the non-specialist, this content may be quite appropriate. In addition to coverage of many important infectious diseases, including sepsis, infections due to Listeria, infections due to group B streptococci, viral infections, and HIV infection, there are chapters on nosocomial infections, infections in the mother, diagnostic tests for infection, and several on therapy of infection. This volume is the result of a workshop at Oxford (date not given), and the contributors are mostly from Great Britain and continental Europe. The contributions vary in style. Some are a broad overview, while others, such as the chapter on septicemia and meningitis, mostly represent the author's own research data. This aspect is not necessarily bad, as that particular chapter on septicemia and meningitis contains some of the most recent and best-collected data on meningitis in an industrial country. Although the publication date of this text is 1990, it must have been late in 1990, because there are many references to publications as recent as 1989. While this volume is recommended to students and pediatric trainees for a condensed, relatively low-cost overview of newborn infections, it is unclear that there is much of a market for such a book. The standard pediatric texts cover most of this material adequately, and those looking for real depth will probably wish to consult the two texts mentioned at the beginning of this review.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
دوره 65 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1992