Edited by Michael L.J. Apuzzo. 2365 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1993. $475. ISBN 0-443-08709-1.
Medical and surgical therapies are increasingly subject to formalrisk-benefit analysis; surgical complications remain substantialcauses of morbidity that often weigh heavily in discussionsof the relative merits of medical and surgical alternatives.Techniques of avoiding complications have rarely been formalized;most programs of surgical or neurosurgical training continueto follow the apprenticeship model, in which one learns by emulatingthe practice of a senior mentor "because it works." Apuzzo'snew textbook, Brain Surgery, attempts to provide such formalization.He has asked his stellar contributing senior neurosurgeons todescribe not only how they perform a procedure, but also why,and . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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