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  Vol. 301 No. 6, February 11, 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Danforths’s Obstetrics and Gynecology

Edited by R. S. Gibbs, B. Y. Karlan, A. F. Haney, and I. E. Nygaard
10th ed, 1136 pp, $165.50
New York, NY, Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7817-6937-2

JAMA. 2009;301(6):672.

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

It is one thing for a man to understand a matter for himself and for his own use, and another thing to understand it and explain it for the use of others.—Peter Mere Latham, General Remarks on the Practice of Medicine, Chapter 1, "The Heart and Its Affections."

Since its first edition was published more than 40 years ago, Danforth's Obstetrics and Gynecology has been one of the standard textbooks for students, residents, and practitioners in the specialty. Over the years, the editors have recruited experts in the subject matter of the discipline to provide both basic and updated reviews of important material. Since my last review of this textbook about 5 years ago, there have been substantial changes. The 10th edition has a new editor and many new contributors as well as a new feature that allows it to compete in the increasing market for online reference material. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Ronald T. Burkman, MD, Reviewer
Baystate Medical Center
Springfield, Massachusetts
rtb@bhs.org



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