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Previous Volume 355:331-332 July 20, 2006 Number 3

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Edited by Alfred E. Chang, Patricia A. Ganz, Daniel F. Hayes, and others. 2005 pp., illustrated. New York, Springer-Verlag, 2006. $179. ISBN 0-387-24291-0.

This text — which weighs almost 9 lb, contains approximately the same number of pages as its first edition, and includes 113 chapters from more than 250 contributors — has the physical gravitas of a worthy scholarly tome. However, in this age of high-speed interconnected information systems, regularly updated on-line references (even the venerable Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine has undergone a high-tech makeover), and personal digital assistants and other handheld personal computers, a new textbook must do more than aim to present a "unified approach that categorizes and summarizes the evidence that is currently available." By the time textbooks . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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