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Second edition. By E. Albert Reece and Donald R. Coustan. 455 pp., illustrated. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1996. $105. ISBN 0-443-08979-5.

A second edition of any specialized multiauthored textbook is a tribute to both good editing and good publishing. That there is a demand for such work in this field is shown by the existence of a considerable number of small booklets, larger publications of conference colloquium proceedings, reviews of small, specialized sectors, and broader clinical summaries aimed at postgraduate students. Only one other work has gone to a second edition — the monograph by Jorgen Pedersen published in 1967 that set the standard of careful personal observation and defined the field of study for the next three decades. Pedersen's hypothesis . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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