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Previous Volume 339:2031 December 31, 1998 Number 27

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Edited by James J. Nordlund, Raymond E. Boissy, Vincent J. Hearing, Richard A. King, and Jean-Paul Ortonne. 1025 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1998. $225. ISBN 0-19-509861-7.

Nature has long had an intense interest in pigmentation. The innumerable variations in pigment across biologic species have important social and cosmetic roles. Pigmentation protects us from the sun, and for many amphibians, reptiles, fish, and mammals, pigmentation provides camouflage from predators.

This book is the first comprehensive treatise on pigmentation that combines its physiology in animals with its pathophysiology and clinical aspects in humans. The five editors have provided an opportunity for the leading investigators in pigmentation to show their stuff. The editors and authors have succeeded in presenting a thorough work. The book begins with an informative history . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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