Difficult Decisions in Medical Ethics. The Fourth Volume in a Series on Ethics, Humanism, and Medicine

In addition to reasonable coverage of clinical aspects of diagnosis and treatment of this infection, there are chapters devoted to laboratory aspects of Pneumocystis carinii. These chapters cover the interaction of the organism with phagocytes, cultivation of the organism, and experimental models of infection. The book is relevant to clinicians interested in improving their factual knowledge about diagnosing and managing the infection and also to students in all phases of their education who wish to learn about the biology and epidemiology of the organism and the disease. I recommend the book to infectious diseases practitioners and teachers as a reference book and to specialists in clinical immunology and hematology whose patients are susceptible to infections caused by this organism. My only reservation is that, because of a brief index and imperfect chapter organization, some of the information is difficult to find and association of the infection with specific underlying diseases is not sufficiently compartmentalized.