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Edited by David A. Isenberg and Lori B. Tucker. 169 pp. London, Martin Dunitz, 1997. (Distributed by Mosby, St. Louis.) $80. ISBN 1-85317-395-9.
By Juan J. Canoso. 372 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1997. $45. ISBN 0-7216-6080-0.

No area of medicine is free from controversy. Few book titles are as intriguing as those that promise to explore controversial issues. In Controversies in Rheumatology each chapter is written by well-known experts in rheumatology and immunology.

The chapter on the HLA-DRB1 shared epitope in rheumatoid arthritis will probably be the most interesting one to rheumatologists. However, rather than deal with controversy, it provides a good exposition of genetic influences on the distribution and severity of the disease. The chapter on heat-shock proteins in the rheumatic diseases reviews current theories of the role of these proteins. The next chapter, on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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