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Harrison’s Neurology in Clinical Medicine
edited by Stephen L. Hauser, Scott Andrew Josephson, Joey D. English, and John W. Engstrom, 692 pp., McGraw-Hill, 2006, $72.50
For many editions Raymond D. Adams edited the neurology section of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. In 1977 he and Maurice Victor, following the general format of Harrison’s, published Principles of Neurology, which the two of them wrote in its entirety. In its eighth edition, now authored by Allan Roper and Robert Brown, Principles of Neurology weighs in at 1382 pages. Its chief competitor is Merritt’s Textbook of Neurology, multiauthored, edited by Lewis P. Rowland, and with a similarly hefty 1271 pages. For more detailed information neurologists can turn to Bradley et al.’s two-volume Neurology in Clinical Practice or Asbury et al’s two-volume Diseases of the Nervous System. For less detailed information non-neurologists (including impoverished medical students) find most of what they need to know in the neurology chapters in Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine or in Harrison. (Cliff Note-style paperbacks – “Neurology Made Hilariously Simple,” etc. – should be kept out of …
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