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

http://www.elsevierhealth.co.uk/dermatology-and-cosmetic-surgery/treatment-of-skin-disease-expert-consult/9780702052354/

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.

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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!

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Reviewed by Jim Young

Dr. Alice Roberts

Published by Dorling Kindersley

ISBN: 978-1-4053-6165-1

Price £20 hardback

http://www.dk.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781405361651,00.html?strSrchSql=evolution/Evolution_The_Human_Story_Alice_Roberts

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.

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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.

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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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