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Book review
Lecture Notes on Neurology. Seventh Edition
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Lecture Notes on Neurology. Seventh Edition. By l ginsberg. (Pp 199, £14.95). Published by Blackwell Science, Oxford, 1999. ISBN0-632-04827-1.
Over the past few years, increasingly well designed basic neurology textbooks have come on to the market, their attractive layout and quality illustrations serving to liberate today's students from the challenge of reams of unappetising text interrupted only by an occasional line drawing. The latest Lecture Notes in Neurology is one of this cohort and, as with several of its contemporaries, it now has several editions behind it; the previous incarnation (now over 12 years old) had long since fallen out of favour with its customers, showing clear signs of being rather “long in the tooth” in the face of fierce competition and a rapidly evolving specialty. On these grounds alone an update was long overdue, …