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Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders: Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines for the Practicing Physician
edited by Charles H. Adler and J. Eric Ahlskog, 496 pp, with illus,
$125, ISBN 0-89603-607-3, Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2000.
Arch Neurol. 2001;58:314.
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How does the managed care revolution affect textbook buying? The editors
of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, citing
the growing constraints on subspecialist referral, see general neurologists
and nonneurologists as needing a concise guide to the care of patients with
very arcane and complicated conditions. The result is a book that concentrates
on the clinical evaluation and treatment of Parkinson disease (PD) and movement
disorders, with only a nod to their scientific underpinnings. The writing
is uniformly clear and avoids undefined terminology beyond the training of
its intended audience. Likewise, the completeness of coverage and paucity
of redundancy reflect careful editorship.
Most of the authors are Mayo Clinic faculty, and the editors are accomplished
movement disorders specialists there. The text, appropriately, includes no
citations, but a list of 2 (a number that should be higher) to 20 primary
and secondary sources follows each of the 35 chapters. A directory . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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