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Edited by Stewart Cameron, Alex M. Davison, Jean-Pierre Grunfeld, David Kerr, and Eberhard Ritz. 2348 pp. in three volumes, illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1992. $295. ISBN 0-19-262093-2.

Clinical nephrology has important roots in Europe and in the work of European scholars such as Addis, Bywaters, Black, and Hamburger. The newest and most massive addition to nephrology's crowded libraries comes from this tradition. Its editorial goal is to take a different approach to textbooks of clinical nephrology, as reflected mainly in four specific features: emphasis on rare renal problems and renal manifestations of systemic diseases that might be encountered by non-nephrologists; an international perspective that includes renal diseases in developing countries; an awareness of special problems in the very young and the very old; and a qualified deemphasis . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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