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Edited by John B. Chang, with Earl R. Olsen, Kailash Prasad, and Bauer E. Sumpio. 1362 pp., illustrated. New York, Springer-Verlag, 2000. $250. ISBN 0-387-98449-6.

The field of vascular disease is rapidly eroding the artificial barriers that previously confined its practitioners to a rather narrow field of endeavor. To remain up to date, clinicians, teachers, and researchers in the field of vascular disease now must enlarge the scope of their knowledge to encompass a broad set of related topics. The Textbook of Angiology attempts to do this in an encyclopedic fashion, and for the most part it succeeds. The editors have endeavored to "ignore the classical disciplinary boundaries of the medical sciences" to form a "discipline that covers all diseases related to blood vessels, including . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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