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Volume 340:2010 June 24, 1999 Number 25

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 a rarity. When the book completes a five-volume work (volume 1 appeared in 1985) comprising 58 chapters and spanning more than 2000 pages, one is tempted to suggest that it ought to be renamed The Encyclopedia of Hemolytic Anemias. And considering that this is the third edition of a work that was first published in 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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