Brain, Vol. 122, No. 7, 1391-1392,
July 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press
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COMPREHENSIVE NEUROLOGY.
By Roger N. Rosenberg and David E. Pleasure. 1998. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.Price £145. ISBN 0-471-16958-7..
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This reviewer from a Neurology Centre in the United Kingdom is glad he did not spend £145 on this substantial neurology text book of 948 pages because, in keeping with usual practice, he appreciates retention of the review copy as a useful reference source, quite easy to thumb through and read.
This is the second edition of a textbook first published in 1991, now comprised of 31 chapters and an astonishing 919 pages within a single volume—rarely has so much been owed by so many to so few. Fifty-six of the contributors come from the United States and the other two from Canada. The two editors combined for the initial chapter on molecular neurology and the first editor provides jointly another chapter on genetic neurological diseases.
A vital part of such a book is a short preface and a good index, the latter consisting of 27 pages which is nearly