Edited by J. Larry Jameson. 1123 pp., illustrated. Totowa, N.J., Humana Press, 1998. $175. ISBN 0-89603-529-8.
Debates are taking place in medical schools and on the pagesof medical journals about the extent to which medical studentsneed to learn about molecular medicine and about how the subjectshould be taught. Indeed, the rapid proliferation of modernmolecular and genetic techniques and advances in structuralbiology have made an enormous contribution to our understandingof biologic processes and the mechanisms of disease. Advancesin human genetics, immunology, virology, hematology, neurology,drug design, and gene therapy, along with knowledge and applicationsgenerated by the Human Genome Project, are converging to createthe new interdisciplinary field known as . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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