Edited by John P. Bilezikian, Lawrence G. Raisz, and Gideon A. Rodan. 1398 pp., illustrated. San Diego, Calif., Academic Press, 1996. $149.95. ISBN 0-12-098650-7.
Over the past two decades the field of bone biology has expandedrapidly and exponentially. This remarkable growth is due toa large extent to the development of tools that allow an understandingof the fundamental molecular and cellular mechanisms controllingbone metabolism in physiologic and pathophysiologic conditions.A spinoff of this research endeavor was the development of newdiagnostic and therapeutic tools and their application to clinicalinvestigations of various bone diseases. Moreover, skeletaldisorders received progressively more attention with the appreciationof their prevalence in the population. One of these disorders,osteoporosis, was little known 20 years ago, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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