The metabolism of the Human Brain Studied with Positron Emission Tomography

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sion of a book of 39 such different chapters written by 55 authors.Certainly some of the contributions are not common featues of books dealing with chronic pain, and they provide valuable information.Exam- ples include chapters on the use of ther- mography, painful metabolic bone disor- ders, pain in the male genitalia, and a very useful review by Dr Aronoff and Professor Sweet entitled "The future of pain man- agement" in which information on neuropeptides relevant to pain is gathered together.This book is more likely to be useful for occasional reference than for cover-to-cover reading and the heterogeneous material and the consider- able uneveness of quality of the chapters detract from the book's overall merits.The product-on is good ana tme pI able.