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Edited by Patricia Stuart-Macadam and Susan Kent. 285 pp. Hawthorne, N.Y., Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. $59.95. ISBN 0-202-01189-5.

For many years, iron metabolism languished in the backwaters of biomedical research and teaching, slowly corroding like an old Chevy abandoned near the levee. The prevailing view was that everything of importance about this metal was known, leaving only a few oddities to puzzle the pundits. Recently the pendulum has swung somewhat, reflecting a growing appreciation of the important role of iron in infection, heart disease, and the psychomotor development of children.

This book has been written as an interdisciplinary examination of iron metabolism. The editors have focused the more traditional medical view of iron through an anthropologic prism. Their . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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