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Second edition. Edited by Elise A. Olsen. 544 pp., illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2003. $195. ISBN 0-07-136494-3.

Hair can be used to express cultural, sexual, and religious individuality. Disorders of hair growth that compromise individual expression may affect self-esteem, social functioning, and quality of life. Deviations of hair growth may also be a manifestation of internal disease and thereby a vital diagnostic clue for all clinicians. This textbook of hair disorders, now in its second edition, affirms that diagnosis and treatment are possible in most cases.

The editor, Elise Olsen, is a dermatologist from Duke University Medical Center, in North Carolina, and past president of the North American Hair Research Society. She is responsible for numerous publications . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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