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Book review
Allergic Diseases. Diagnosis and Treatment.
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Allergic Diseases. Diagnosis and Treatment. Edited by Phil Lieberman and John A Anderson. (Pp 402; $89.50 hardback.) Humana Press, 1997. ISBN 0-896-03367-8.
This is very much an American book aimed at a home readership, and as such its applicability to UK clinical practice is limited. Neither the editors nor the contributors are likely to be familiar to British paediatricians. Although comprehensive, it does not hang together well as a coordinated textbook: it is more a series of essays on topics related to allergic disease in the widest sense. It declares itself to be aimed at primary care physicians and allergy specialists …