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Edited by Robert Marcus, David Feldman, and Jennifer Kelsey. 1373 pp., illustrated. San Diego, Calif., Academic Press, 1996. $149.95. ISBN 0-12-470860-9.

Interest in osteoporosis has grown exponentially in the past two decades, with the diversification of research well beyond traditional areas into such fields as engineering and epidemiology. A small number of excellent journals and textbooks on various aspects of osteoporosis are already available, but a textbook focused solely on this condition and encompassing this diversity of research has been lacking. This book does a terrific job of filling the gap. It contains 70 chapters grouped in 6 sections, which cover skeletal biology, structure and biomechanics, epidemiology and risk factors, pathophysiology, evaluation and management, and pharmacology and therapeutics. All the chapters . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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