Benzodiazepines.
Benzodiazepines.Edited by michael r trimble and ian hindmarch(Pp154, £33.50). Published by Wrightson Biomedical Publishing Ltd, Petersfield, 2000. ISBN 1 871816 432.
This book claims to examine objectively the basic pharmacological and clinical aspects of the use of benzodiazepines. The agenda is clearly laid out in the introduction where the editors emphasise that the valuable use of these compounds in neurological disorders was overlooked because of the “political turmoil and confusion about the use of benzodiazepines in psychiatry”. In practice the book primarily sets out to make the case …
