BOOK REVIEW
Cells, Tissues, and Disease; 2nd edition
Edited by G Majno, I Joris. Oxford: Published by Oxford University Press, 2004, £120.00 (hardback), pp 1005. ISBN 0 19 514090 7
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The words delight and textbook seldom appear in the same sentence, but their juxtaposition is more than warranted in the case of this superb book. It is a great improvement over the award winning first edition. As before, there is an introduction followed by 34 chapters (not counting the farewell, which is new); the size of the page has been marginally increased; the index has expanded to a more comprehensive 35 pages; and, most importantly, there are now (by my count) some 5149 references (from antiquity to 2003) and 1104 illustrations in total. The latter number includes vastly more than the 27 of the first edition in colour, and even those images that have been re-used seem to have been noticeably enhanced. The book addresses the subject matter
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