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by Matthew J Lynch et al, ed 2; 1,359 pp, 590 illus, $23, Canada $24.85, Philadelphia, WB Saunders Co, 1969.

Frances K. Widmann, MD, Reviewer
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

JAMA. 1970;211(2):302-303.

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Like soap and cigarette manufacturers, publishing houses now have active competition among their own products. Saunders has two Big Books of clinical pathology running concurrently: the present volume, and the Todd-Sanford Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods, edited by Davidsohn and Henry. The two are altogether comparable in size and price. The titles provide an important clue to each book's goal. Davidsohn and Henry's title page emphasizes Clinical Diagnosis, while Lynch et al stress the words Medical Laboratory Technology. By implication, the former is for the physician, the interpreter; the latter for the technologist, the doer. To a considerable degree this premise is true; more detailed and more numerous technical sections will be found in Lynch's book.

A more important reason for Lynch et al's success is the skill with which the authors combine theoretical material with practical details. Pressures of space require all multidiscipline laboratory books to adopt a compact, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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