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Iron deficiency in infancy is very widespread, even in developed countries and even when there is no general malnutrition. This book examines the question whether iron deficiency in early life leads to deleterious changes in brain and/or behavioural development.

A workshop was organised in order to achieve multi-discipli-nary review of the pathogenesis and management of acutefailure, particularly as it occurs and is managed inintensive therapy units. The book deals with the realitiesand practicalities of this important area of acute medicine.

The most striking example of this that I know is a Battle in Ireland in the eleventh century, where the king of Leinster fought a Viking prince. The Icelanders had raided Ireland for several generations in search of women, which they lacked since most of the population of Iceland were men who had arrived there by rowing long-boats from Norway.

The information in this book has been arranged in four parts: Part I deals with plasticity theory, Part II with various numerical modelling techniques, Part III with specific process applications and material phenomena and Part IV with integrated computer systems.

Solar Energy Technology deals with all aspects of solar energy systems. and analyses of solar energy systems from dryers to greenhouses, passive solar buildings to water pumps, are covered in depth. Political action and pressure groups will also find the text useful for developing energy policies.

In his Preface, Robert Whitaker emphasises the changes over the past ten to fifteen years: this means that any urologist over the age of 45 is already out of date in much of his or her knowledge of paediatric urology - unless there has been a genuine attempt at continuing medical education.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Study Group, 1989

Material for this book was gathered in the early 1980's in Manchester, where a higher incidence than usual of complications in the gastro-intestinal and urinary tract was observed. Part I describes the principles and methods of radiotherapy for pelvic tumours, pathological features and radiological analysis of bowel and urinary tract changes.

ILSI Human Nutrition Reviews provide an account of current thought in the field under review and point to problems and questions yet to be elucidated.

4th International Colloquium on Carbohydrate Metabolism in Pegnancy and the Newborn 1988

Herpes Simplex Virus is the fifth monograph to be published in the Bloomsbury Series of Clinical Science. His major research interests include the epidemiology and treatment of genital herpes, the epidemi ology of neo-natal herpes and the many and varied features of HSV infections in immuno-compromised patients.

Fundamentals of Continuum Mechanics of Soils provides a long-needed general scheme for the study of the important yet problematic material of soil. It closes the gap between two disciplines, soil mechanics and con- tinuum mechanics, showing that the familiar concepts of soil mechanics evolve directly from continuum mechanics.

Medical Applications of Microcomputers deals with microcomputer applications in a wide area of clinical medicine. Those wishing to implement their own computer systems will find this book a useful further source of ideas and techniques which add to those described in the earlier volume "Microcomputers in Medicine" by the same editors.

Any discussion of the present success in management of urological cancers evokes a mixed response.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Study Group, 1987

What medicine lacks in an increasingly specialised world is the medical polymath (or should it be medical bimath?) - the man who is an acknowledged expert in more than one field of medicine.

Recent years have witnessed major developments in diagnostic imaging methods. It is essential that those concerned with orthopaedic imaging should appreciate not only recent developments but also the changes likely to occur during the next few years.

Proceedings of a Workshop Held in 1987

The Bloomsbury Series in Clinical Science is growing and changing. The aims of the Series remain, however, to highlight, to review and to record significant areas of research and development in the field of clinical science.

Infant Feeding is about a controversy which fascinated the medical and scientific world, as well as national and international health authorities, politicians, religious groups and consumer organisations, for more than 11 years.

This book is based on the proceedings of the fourth Medical Microcomputer Workshop held at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School on 3-5 September 1986. Although comprehensive commercial packages are available, none of these are entirely suitable for medical applications without modification.

Ninth Symposium on Clinical Oncology of the Royal College of Radiologists, held February 1987 in London

Leading heart surgeons (including the President of the RoyalCollege of Surgeons) bridge the ever-widening gap betweenthe "student" (both pre- and post-graduate) and an increas-ingly remote group of medical and surgical specialists inthis , the only book devoted entirely to the establishedprinciples of cardiac diagnosis.

A further volume in the successful 'Clinical Practice inUrology' series Urological Protheses, Appliances andCatheters, provides for the first time practical informationon all those aspects of urology which depend on manufacturesarticles that are inserted in or attached to patients.

The publication of Bronchoalveolar Mast Cells and Asthma marks the emergence of The Bloomsbury Series in Clinical Science, an important and novel series that will highlight, review and record major areas of research, development and practice in the field of clinical science.