Description: Joining the clinician's perspective with the historian's analysis, this fascinating chronicle offers insight into how diseases are defined, categorized, and understood and explains current concepts of how kidney disease behaves and how modern therapy works.
Brief description: Steven J. Peitzman is a professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine and a senior medical advisor at the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates.
Review Quotes: From time to time, a compelling little book arrives on the medical scene . . . Peitzman's book will be useful to a wide range of readers, from students in the biomedical sciences to researchers to laypersons.
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