FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 345:381 August 2, 2001 Number 5 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited

Edited by Tracy Batchelor and Merit E. Cudkowicz. 374 pp., illustrated. Boston, Butterworth–Heinemann, 2001. $95. ISBN 0-7506-7042-8.

Principles of Neuroepidemiology is an excellent book, despite its misleading title. The principles are covered in the section on methods, which occupies only 4 of the 16 chapters and certainly does not represent the most interesting part of the book. This work can be regarded as a series of brief, focused reviews in clinical neurology — reviews constructed by sophisticated, critical, and analytic observers. Each chapter or review covers the basic facts about the occurrence of a disorder, followed by a discussion of the associated risk factors, and concludes with an analysis of major treatment trials.

Would you like to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org Comments and questions? Please contact us. The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.