Edited by M. Monir Madkour, with Abdulaziz Al Saif, Mona Al Shahed, Kalaf R. Al Moutaery, and Aida J. Al Kudwah. 928 pp., illustrated. Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 2004. $349. ISBN 3-540-01441-1.
This book, whose editor is from the Riyadh Armed Forces Hospitalin Saudi Arabia, concentrates mainly on the clinical aspectsand treatment of tuberculosis. Of its 64 contributing authors,29 are from Saudi Arabia; others, some of whom are well-knowntuberculosis experts, are from Europe, North America, Asia,and Africa. The international orientation of the book givesit an interesting point of view in the discussion of the historicalaspects of tuberculosis. Most textbooks about the disease mentionthe evidence of phthisis in the remains of Egyptian mummiesbut then race centuries ahead to the dark, airless, overcrowdedmills of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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