(Contemporary Endocrinology.) Edited by Lewis E. Braverman. 393 pp. Totowa, N.J., Humana Press, 1997. $125. ISBN 0-896-03414-3. Second edition. Edited by Stephen A. Falk. 768 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott–Raven, 1997. $139. ISBN 0-397-51705-X.
Medical textbooks no doubt sell, rightly or wrongly, on theperceived scientific or clinical standing of the editor andcontributors. No slouch himself, Braverman has assembled manyof the players in the premier league for his Diseases of theThyroid. Perhaps surprisingly, there is no evidence of burnouton the part of writers who must have been cajoled to contributeon the same subjects many times. The text is refreshing, scholarly,and yet easily digested. The chapters, on everything from themechanisms of action of thyroid hormones to the management ofhyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, and nodular goiter and iodinedeficiency and . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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