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Edited by Raad A. Shakir, Peter K. Newman, and Charles M. Poser. 485 pp. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1996. $75. ISBN 0-7020-1922-4.

Few people would dispute the need for an updated review of tropical neurology, a subject that has languished without a textbook since Spillane's classic treatise, published almost 25 years ago (Tropical Neurology. London: Oxford University Press, 1973). Tropical neurology focuses on neurologic disorders, mostly infectious, that are endemic in developing countries but are being recognized more frequently in developed countries as a result of foreign travel and migration.

This multiauthored book has 38 contributors, half of whom work in the tropics or subtropics. The book is divided into four sections according to the causes of neurologic disorders: viral, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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