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Second edition. Edited by Robert H. Anderson, Edward J. Baker, Fergus J. Macartney, Michael L. Rigby, Elliot A. Shinebourne, and Michael Tynan. 2071 pp., in two volumes, illustrated. London, Churchill Livingstone, 2002. $399. ISBN 0-443-07990-0.

So be cheery my lads, let your hearts never fail

While the bold harpooner is striking the whale

— Nantucket Song from Moby Dick

It is not obvious why Moby Dick, a classic American novel, should be juxtaposed with a leading textbook of pediatric cardiology from England. Yet when the reader is slowly and, in general, joyfully plodding through this heavy, two-volume textbook, the analogy to Moby Dick might come to mind. Moby Dick is not just a book about whaling adventures. It is also an exhaustive essay on cetology and the whaling industry, written by a man who had . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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