"Drs Yang and Tao have done a scholarly job of taking the best parts of the previous edition, adding a large amount of updated material and spicing it up with a generous helping of colorful photographs ... The compact size of this edition allows for the easy transport of the combined experience (over 30,000 cases) from two superb cytopathologists. This book is a cornucopia of useful information not just for transabdominal FNAs but also for aspiration cytology from other sites."

"The authors' approach to fill in a little history with futuristic perspective will be a delight to all readers interested in the field. A must read."

"It is most appropriate either for an introductory health or medical physics course on radiation protection or for training radiology and nuclear medicine technologists and residents in the radiation protection aspects of their respective vocations ¡­ This book can also be used by technologists, physicians, and physicists for self-study or as a quick reference for basic information on radiation protection."

"Brain chemistry and human behavior are explained in terms that an intelligent layperson can understand."

"This highly readable and informative book is a useful addition to the growing literature on traditional, complementary and alternative medicine. Its focus on policy and public health issues, particularly in relation to traditional medicine in Asia and Africa and alternative and complementary medicine in North America and Europe, make this book unique and will hopefully encourage further work in this very important field at the interface of public health science and policy."

"This book is a valuable contribution to understanding the demographic history of an important but less emphasized region of Southeast Asia. The rich use of many sources makes this a valuable book that will be useful to people interested in the region and on its archival material, much of which is only in Dutch."

"The two editors have assembled a large and international team of contributors, covering the surgical specialties as well as anaesthetics, gastrointestinal medicine, and imaging, and also including a medical historian and a medicolegal ethicist. Its chapters cover pretty well every aspect of this broad subject ... The book provides surgeons with a splendid account of today's diagnostic and therapeutic arsenal in managing surgical complications ... this is a nicely produced and illustrated and easy to read book."

"In summary, this book is inspirational in describing the efforts of a true surgical pioneer over many years to tackle one of the most challenging surgical procedures to treat traumatic injuries which involve damage to spinal nerve roots as they enter at the spinal cord. It represents an injury at the interface of peripheral and central nervous systems and therefore poses certain unique challenges, as well as opportunities to compare and contrast what regenerating axons can and cannot do within these two very different environments. Dr Carlstedt has done what many physicians hope to do but very few ever achieve. He has increased our understanding of an important biological and clinical problem at a scientific level as well as pioneered a new surgical approach that is benefiting patients significantly. This book and the efforts represented in it serves as an inspiration to all of us interested in advancing the field of medicine."