South African Family Practice Manual (third edition): Book Review

Book Review: Manual of Childhood Infections

The fourth edition of this manual appears nearly five years after the third edition was published. It has been updated and re-written with the aim of improving the evidence-based management of pediatric infections. Emerging infections, nosocomial infections and antimicrobial resistance are covered in new chapters and updated existing ones. The new edition is also aimed at increasing the interna...

Manual of the Practice of Medicine

numerous reprintings. Such a volume is beyond criticism. This manual is frankly elementary, but the ninth edition has been largely rewritten, especially in the sections devoted to dysentery, dengue, sleeping sickness, beri-beri, Malta fever, plague?to mention only the tropical diseases. The information given is accurate and up-todate and clearly expressed. The volume is elegantly got up, well p...

Genetic markers in the blood of animals: a historical review.

In this review an attempt is made to list the most important events in the search for genetic markers in the blood of animals. In chronological order, blood groups, biochemical polymorphisms, lymphocyte antigens and DNA markers have been discovered and used in practice. Of all practical uses, parentage verification and exclusion are regarded as the most important, and it can be said with pride ...

CURING AND CARING—A Review of the factors affecting the quality and acceptability of Health Care

THIS is the third edition of a successful introductory textbook of psychiatry. The approach is rather unusual in that the emphasis is on common psychiatric symptoms such as anxiety and clinical situations which create management problems such as the acutely disturbed patient. The process of diagnosis and management of such symptoms and situations is lucidly presented in a very readable style, w...

Book Review: Pharmacology by Rang HP, Dale MM, Ritter JM and Moore PK. Fifth edition Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 2003