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edited by Stephen L. Hauser, MD (editor), and Scott Andrew Josephson, MD, Joey D. English, MD, PhD, and John W. Engstrom, MD (associate editors), 691 pp, with illus, $67.95, ISBN 0-07-145745-3, New York, New York, McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Hans-Peter Hartung, MD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 2008;65(4):554.

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Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine is a household name for medical students, residents, and physicians throughout the world. It has been translated into many languages and is now in its 16th edition. Since its first edition published in 1950, it has contained a section on neurology. Eminent neurologists served as section editors: Houston Merritt, MD, Raymond Adams, MD, and Joseph Martin, MD. Stephen Hauser, MD, currently is the spiritus rector. The publisher and editor decided to publish Harrison's Neurology in Clinical Medicine as a stand-alone volume with the aim "to provide expanded coverage of clinically important topics geared to the needs of the practicing internist, while retaining the focus on pathophysiology and therapy that has always been characteristic of Harrison’s." The book is organized in 7 sections, each containing between 1 and 32 chapters, with a review and self-assessment appendix. Section 1 is an . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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