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Previous Volume 348:1415-1416 April 3, 2003 Number 14

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Edited by Thomas F. Cash and Thomas Pruzinsky. 530 pp. New York, Guilford Press, 2002. $60. ISBN 1-57230-777-3.

"Body image, the multifaceted psychological experience of embodiment, profoundly influences the quality of human life," state the editors in the preface to this book. Thomas Cash and Thomas Pruzinsky have managed to pull together a collection of writing to support this powerful statement. The past decade has witnessed a considerable increase in the attention paid by clinicians and researchers to body image. Body Image consists of 57 chapters written by recognized experts, who provide concise, authoritative, state-of-the-art summaries of each topic. This book should prove to be of considerable interest to the many physicians who encounter the complexities of body . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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