Specialist books : Joint effort

The thirteenth edition of Arthritis and Allied Conditions, edited by William
Koopman of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, (Williams and Wilkins,
£200, ISBN 0 683 04728 0), is one of those comforting tomes that you know
contains everything you need, and several things you don’t. New chapters on
cytokines, gene therapy and apoptosis help you to catch up in this huge area of
medicine.