The Haemolytic Anaemias, Volume 5: Drug- and chemical-induced haemolytic anaemias; paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria; haemolytic disease of the newborn
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Third edition. By Sir John Dacie. 448 pp., illustrated. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1999. $175. ISBN 0-4430-6269-2.
In an era of textbooks and monographs written by dozens of contributors,a book of substantial size by a single author is a bit of ararity. When the book completes a five-volume work (volume 1appeared in 1985) comprising 58 chapters and spanning more than2000 pages, one is tempted to suggest that it ought to be renamedThe Encyclopedia of Hemolytic Anemias. And considering thatthis is the third edition of a work that was first publishedin 1954 — before many readers of this review were born— one wonders under how many headings this book would. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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