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Edited by Michael H. Crawford and John P. DiMarco, with 14 others. 1614 pp., illustrated. New York, Mosby, 2001. $139. ISBN 0-7234-3138-8.

Several large textbooks of cardiology — or more accurately, cardiovascular disease — have been published in the past few years. This book is an entirely new textbook with a modern and carefully constructed format.

Books on cardiology during the earlier part of the 20th century were moderate in size in relation to more recent tomes. They were single-author books in which the author, often rather specifically, expressed a personal view with respect to a particular medical problem. Times have changed. With the advent of personal computers, access to the Internet, the immense progress in the presentation of graphics, and advances . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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