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Brain, Vol. 127, No. 4, 940-941, 2004
© 2004 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awh094

Book Review

DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE AND THERAPEUTIC PRINCIPLES. Third edition

DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM: CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE AND THERAPEUTIC PRINCIPLES. Third edition
Edited by A. K. Asbury, G. M. McKhann, W. I. McDonald, P. J. Goadsby and J. C. McArthur
2002. Pp. 2194. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Price £250. ISBN 0-521-79351-3.

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Broadly speaking, neurology textbooks can be placed in three categories: small introductory texts, aimed primarily at medical students and junior doctors; single-volume texts that give a more thorough coverage of the subject for neurology trainees and provide an easy source of reference for non-neurologists; and large, multivolume texts that are usually used as the first point of reference by neurologists before going to the primary literature. This textbook, which comes in two volumes with an elegant box and is over 2000 pages in length, would seem naturally to fall into the last of these categories.

However, if you approach the book with this expectation you will be disappointed, for this is neither the aim nor the outcome for this text. The editors . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Geraint Fuller

Department of Neurology, Gloucester Royal Hospital, Gloucester, UK


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