LITERATURE OF MEDICINE
Reviews and Notes: Hematology: Hematology: A Pathophysiological Approach
1 March 1995 | Volume 122 Issue 5 | Page 400
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Hematology: A Pathophysiological Approach
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Third edition. Bernard M. Babior and Thomas P. Stossel; eds. 504 pages. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1994. $39.95.
The editors, admitting their bias, believe hematology to be "the most beautifully rational and therefore the most intellectually satisfying of all the disciplines of medicine." The book was intended to make the "inherent connections between mechanism and diseases as clear as possible," and it does. The prose is clear, as are the numerous line drawings. This book represents a good value. In the 17th century, Richard Burton described blood as "a hot, temperate, red humor whose office is to nourish the whole body to give it strength and color ... ..".
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