Inaugurates one of two series resulting from the recent merger of the U. of London's institutes for postgraduate research on diseases of the chest and diseases of the heart. The first volume of the series devoted to heart disease contains 13 papers discussing the pattern in the continuum from coronary arterial atherosclerosis, through ischemic heart disease, to heart failure. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Dr. Robert "Bob" Henry Anderson, MD, FRCPath, is a retired Clinical Cardiac Anatomist who remains involved in research and teaching, notably as Visiting Professorial Fellow of Institute of Genetic Medicine at Newcastle University, UK.