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Rubin's Pathology: Clinicopathologic Foundations of Medicine, 5th Edition
Edited by Raphael Rubin and David S. Strayer, 1328 pp, $110.
Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007.
ISBN-13 978-0-7817-9516-6.
JAMA. 2007;298(17):2073-2074.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.—Oscar Wilde
As is implied in the rather ambitious subtitle, Rubin's Pathology: Clinicopathologic Foundations of Medicine aims to present information that is "worth knowing" in applied pathology to its intended audience: medical students, pathology trainees, and others who have an interest in this nexus of basic science and clinical medicine. In this regard, the book seems to be on target.
The fifth edition of Rubin’s appears only 3 years after the fourth. There are 9 chapters devoted to basic general pathology and 21 to "systemic" considerations. Each section offers a sip or two from the torrent of recent developments that now aid in our understanding of the pathogenesis of disparate (and desperate) diseases. Moving beyond mere clinical and morphological expression of diseases, the reasonably refined text . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Syed A. Hoda, MD, Reviewer
Department of Pathology
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, New York
Rana S. Hoda, MD, Reviewer
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York
sahoda@med.cornell.edu
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