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Edited by J. Patrick O'Leary. 648 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1993. $95. ISBN 0-683-06634-X.

Books on the physiology and pathophysiology underlying surgery constitute a distinct genre of surgical textbooks. They are devoted to the basic biomedical science that should be a part of the surgeon's education. They include, for example, Ian Aird's classic Companion in Surgical Studies (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1949), the more recent book from Australia entitled Clinical Science for Surgeons (W. Burnett. Sydney: Butterworth, 1981), Fischer's Surgical Basic Science (St. Louis: Mosby, 1993), and this ample and well-documented vade mecum providing up-to-date physiologic knowledge appropriate to the practice of surgery.

This type of surgical book is of special interest because it . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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