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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 9x7x0; 1984 Pergamon Press (Oxford, England), 7 3/4 x 10 inches tall red buckram cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, illustrated with black-and-white photographs and charts, vii, 253 pp. Half-page errata laid in. Slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Mild foxing to page edges and blank endpapers. Otherwise, a very good copy-clean, bright and unmarked-in a slightly sun-toned and edgeworn dust jacket which has a 3-inch chip to the rear but is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~V~ [3.0P] Like its predecessors, which dealt with physical science and life and earth sciences, this encyclopedia 'focuses on ignorance not knowledge. ' The authors were asked to 'state what it is they do not know, ' emphasize research, and possibly provide new insights. Twenty-five scientists, most of them from the British Isles, have written two dozen essays that span the life of the person from conception to senility. Ten deal with the nervous system; psychotherapy, schizophrenia, depression, drug dependence, multiple sclerosis, and 'the hypothalamus as an aging clock' are among subjects considered. The cardiovascular, respiratory, visual, and auditory systems and their diseases also receive attention. There is a group of articles on mutation, genetic pathology, contraception, fetal diagnosis, and pregnancy ('an immunological mystery'). And, broad topics such as cancer, transplantation, immunity to viruses and parasites, and medical care are examined.
