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 334:1550 June 6, 1996 Number 23 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 Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited

By John V. Forrester, Andrew D. Dick, Paul McMenamin, and William R. Lee. 409 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1996. $45. ISBN 0-7020-1790-6.

Medical students, eye-care specialists in training, and practicing ophthalmologists should welcome The Eye: Basic Sciences in Practice. John Forrester and colleagues have successfully integrated state-of-the-art basic-science principles with abundant illustrations. Most of the illustrations are two-tone drawings, and these are more than adequately supplemented by clinical photographs, photomicrographs, and electron micrographs. In a break with the standard structured format, the authors have inset clinical informational pearls within the basic-science text, allowing the reader to form clinical associations. This makes the basic-science information more clinically relevant and memorable. In addition, the authors have cross-referenced page numbers of relevant information within the . . . [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.