© 2003 BMJ Publishing Group & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
BOOK REVIEW
A Clinical Guide to Inherited Metabolic Diseases, 2nd edn
Edited by JTR Clarke UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002, £29.95, pp 306. ISBN 0521890764
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Dr Clarke’s enthusiasm and erudition are evident on every page of this book, which is handily sized, and, wonder of wonders, costs only £30.
Most of the chapters are written with a clinically based approach, and the chapters on basic principles in understanding inherited metabolic disease, neonatal screening, hypoglycaemia, metabolic acidosis, storage diseases, and dysmorphism will be read with a sensation of increasing revelation by just about any paediatrician, and those with a secure background in biochemistry and metabolic disease will pick up many nuggets of wisdom.
Why then, do I simply not recommend every paediatrician who sometimes deals with metabolic problems—and there must be few of us who do not—to rush out and buy a copy before such a gem either goes out of print or rises in price? My caveat is that this book’s clinical approach coupled with its encyclopaedic coverage of some topics means that several chapters
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