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Reviewed by Dr Harry Brown
4th Edition: Edited by Mark Lebwohl, Warren Heymann, John Berth-Jones and Ian Coulson
ISBN 978-0-7020-5235-4
Published by Elsevier Saunders
Price £147
Without doubt this is an excellent book and the reader is encouraged to dip in and read around a topic and enhance their knowledge. It is also a super reference book, particularly when wanting more information about dermatological therapeutics-an area that is often neglected.
Reviewed by Jim Young
Dr. Alice Roberts
Published by Dorling Kindersley
ISBN: 978-1-4093-4736-1
http://www.dk.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781409347361,00.html?/Human_Anatomy_Alice_Roberts
Price £20 hardback
In the very first pages of this book we are told that there are 2 metres of DNA (3 billion bases) in every cell in our bodies! That in one square centimetre of skin there are on average 55 centimetres of nerve fibres, 70 centimetres of blood vessels, 15 sebaceous glands, 100 sweat glands, and 200 sensory receptors. How many books can offer such a functional interplay between an exciting text and its reader!
Reviewed by Jim Young
Dr. Alice Roberts
Published by Dorling Kindersley
ISBN: 978-1-4053-6165-1
Price £20 hardback
This sumptuously illustrated book is augmented by well-annotated diagrams, photographs and specialist subject boxes, and we are indebted to numerous anthropologists, geologists, and palaeontologists for the information that has been garnered from their painstaking excavations.
Reviewed by Jim Young
Dorothy H. Crawford, Alan Rickinson, and Ingólfur Johannessen
Published by Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-0-19-965311-9
Price £16.99
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199653119.do
The publication of this book coincides with the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus in 1964. The book – which is aimed at a general audience – is a medical research chronology that is part detective story; part biography(s); part travelogue, and it just bounces along the timeline with a readability that almost belies the intense research efforts that it is chronicling.
Reviewed by Dr Harry Brown
22nd Edition Published 2014
Edited by Brian Walker, Nicki Colledge, Stuart Ralston and Ian Penman
Published Churchill Livingstone Elsevier
ISBN 978-0-7020-5035-0
Price £52.99
http://www.elsevierhealth.co.uk/product.jsp?isbn=9780702050350&sgCountry=GB&isbn=9780702050350
I have known this textbook longer than I have known most of my family and friends! I used this as a primary source of information as a medical student (more years ago than I care to recall) in my clinical years. Even then one of the current editors taught me as a student. At that time the book was superb, and having reviewed the latest edition I retain the same opinion. It remains accessible, authoritative and pretty comprehensive in its coverage.
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