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Endocrinology
Williams Textbook of Endocrinology Williams Textbook of Endocrinology CD-ROM
Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, edited by P. Reed Larsen, Henry M. Kronenberg, Shlomo Melmed, and Kenneth S. Polonsky, 10th ed, 1927 pp, with illus, $149.95, ISBN 0-7216-9184-6, Philadelphia, Pa, Saunders, 2003.
Williams Textbook of Endocrinology CD-ROM, edited by P. Reed Larsen, Henry M. Kronenberg, Shlomo Melmed, and Kenneth S. Polonsky, 10th ed, requires 64 MB RAM, 24 MB hard-disk space, Pentium processor, Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP or Macintosh PowerPC, Mac OS 8.6 or higher, $149.95, ISBN 0-7216-9196-X, Philadelphia, Pa, Saunders, 2003.
JAMA. 2003;290:3140-3141.
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I welcomed the arrival of the 10th edition of Williams Textbook of Endocrinology as an old friend now more handsome and engaging than ever, with illustrious new editors and a number of new chapters. But is the textbook a little formal and old-fashioned considering the times?
In fact, every chapter has been significantly updated, as demonstrated by the increased number of references, more than 2000 in one chapter. "Williams 10" is more complete and up-to-date than ever.
Robert H. Williams, the originator, recognized the difficulty faced by student and clinician in obtaining authoritative information. As he wrote in the first edition (reprinted in the introduction to this one), "The [text's] main objective is to provide a condensed and authoritative discussion of the management of clinical endocrinopathies based on the application of fundamental information obtained from chemical and physiological investigations." When the first edition was published in 1950 at 978 . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Stanley G. Korenman, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
School of Medicine
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