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By Harold Klawans. 256 pp. New York, W.W. Norton, 2000. $24.95. ISBN 0-393-04831-4.

Evolution is still a questionable concept in some quarters. It seems that it has little to do with the practice of medicine. Indeed, I know a number of successful practitioners and professors of medicine who do not "believe" in evolution. In this book, a self-declared "classically trained neurologist" uses clinical tales from his own long and distinguished practice to show how evolutionary theory and solid facts about evolution provide indispensable background for understanding clinical cases and formulating successful treatments.

Using an ascendant principle in medical education — the use of case-based, problem-orientated teaching — Klawans introduces a broad range of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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