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Physiological and pathological auxology
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Edited by Ivan Nicoletti, Lodovico Benso, Giulio Gilli. Florence: Nicompe, 2004, €130.00, pp 653. ISBN 88-87814-22-8
Auxology, for the uninitiated, is the study of growth. This large book aims to cover exactly what it says in the title: normal growth and how to measure it, and abnormal growth secondary to illness. It is a multi-author text (n = 67), mainly with European contributors, and is edited by a well respected Italian team. The nearest book in scope would be the classic Faulkner and Tanner three volume treatise Human …