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By Louise B. Russell. 128 pp. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1994. $30 (cloth); $10 (paper). ISBN 0-520-08365-2 (cloth)

This book is a stunner: concise, lucid, wise, important. Run, do not walk, to your nearest bookstore to buy a copy, and read it promptly. It will tell you all you ever wanted to know about screening tests but were afraid to ask lest you appear to be unsophisticated. Even those with a fear of mathematics can proceed without trepidation; there are no formulas; to understand the book requires no more than basic arithmetic.

Screening tests are all the rage these days. It has become an article of faith that early detection of disease (or the risk of disease) permits . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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