Edited by Roger S. Kirby, Michael G. Kirby, and Riad N. Farah. 187 pp., illustrated. Oxford, United Kingdom, Isis Medical Media, 1999. $59.95. ISBN 1-899066-92-6.
Men die several years earlier than women. They have more health-riskbehaviors and see physicians less often than women. Yet thereare few medical books about men's health, whereas those aboutwomen's health abound. I was able to find only one other bookfor physicians, published by Oxford University Press in 1998,specifically about men's health (Tom O'Dowd and David Jewell,editors. Men's Health). So the publication of a comprehensivetextbook on this subject might be, as Acheson suggests in theforeword, "a major literary event." Whether or not it is that,this book is a landmark. It begins . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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