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Brain, Vol. 123, No. 3, 653-654, March 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

Book reviews

NEUROLOGY IN TROPICS.

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Milne Anderson

University Hospital of Birmingham, NHS Trust, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK

This is an interesting and, at the same time, an irritating book. Its purpose is to provide a work of reference, and it is aimed at neurologists world-wide who may have to deal with illness in patients who have travelled from the tropics, postgraduates in neurology, neurologists in the tropics and general physicians in those regions. The format is to group the 56 chapters into seven sections: nutritional disorders and neurotoxicology; CNS infections; neuromuscular diseases; cerebrovascular diseases; epilepsy; demyelination and degeneration; and a miscellaneous group which includes chapters on history, epidemiology, future developments and public health. There are 94 contributors, 66 of whom are from the Indian sub-continent. Although there is a bias towards India, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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