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Edited by Herbert L. DuPont and Robert Steffen. 370 pp., with CD-ROM. Hamilton, Ont., B.C. Decker, 1997. (Distributed by Blackwell Science, Cambridge, Mass.) $125. ISBN 1-55009-037-2.

Tens of millions of trips are taken by travelers from developed to developing countries annually, for pleasure, business, education, and religious reasons and to visit family. Responding to the demand for travelers' health services, clinics to provide immunizations, preventive medical advice, and diagnosis and treatment of exotic diseases have proliferated.

A modern textbook to guide that work is needed. This book was developed, as the editors state, "to provide a single source of information for physicians and paramedical personnel interested in the medical problems of travelers." It achieves this goal remarkably well because of its organization and its expert authors. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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