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(People and Ideas Series.) Edited by John B. West. 430 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press (for the American Physiological Society), 1996. $85. ISBN 0-19-508081-5.

This book on people and ideas contains interesting and often amusing information about the founders of respiratory physiology, with a minimum of complicated diagrams and jargon. Its five parts cover morphology, gas exchange and blood flow, mechanics, control of ventilation, and comparative physiology. The chapters vary widely in their scope, some summarizing developments since the ancient Greeks, others starting from World War II; an author occasionally presents a state-of-the-art overview without bothering much about people and ideas. Appropriately, all authors are pioneers who are well equipped to look back: Weibel, Forster, Astrup, Mead, Macklem, to mention only some. A handicap . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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