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BOOK REVIEW
Child and adolescent psychiatry, 4th edition
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Edited by Michael Rutter and Eric Taylor. Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Hardback, £99.50, pp 1186. ISBN 0 632 05361 5
It’s bigger, but is it better?
For me and my colleagues the answer is certainly, “Yes”.
Our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) now has all four editions of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, “the child psychiatrist’s bible”, from the first edition, 1997 (Shorter Oxford Dictionary size); to the second edition, 1985 (phone directory size); the paperback third edition, 1995 (Yellow Pages size, plus); and now this, the fourth edition, 2002, which is almost Data Sheet Compendium size. These awesome dimensions and the …