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Edited by Jes Olesen, Peer Tfelt-Hansen, and K.M.A. Welch. 894 pp., illustrated. New York, Raven Press, 1993. $165. ISBN 0-7817-0069-8.

As Fred Plum rightly states in his foreward, this is more than just another book about headache; it is an encyclopedia on the subject. It consists of 125 chapters, divided into six sections and written by 121 authors. Most chapters are written by coauthors from two different institutions and often from different countries. The chapters are relatively short -- on the average, somewhat less than seven pages long.

The starting point of the book is the classification of headaches published in 1988 by the International Headache Society. The chairman of the classification committee was Jes Olesen, also an editor of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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