If you are starting out on a telemetry unit, or just want to review some anatomy, physiology and pathology, this is a pretty good book. It also gives info on contemporary testing and surgical interventions for cardiac diseases. A little pricey, but I would reccomend it.

Extremely detailed, thorough, and technical. Everything you ever wanted to know about the heart without being a physician. Covers everything from physical assessments and findings, to every procedure and preparation, to wave forms and EKG rhythm interpretation and analysis. Technical physiology.

This book is excellent for nursing students!

According to the subtitle, the audience for this book is librarians and "health care consumers," but according to the introduction, the audience is both of those and "health professionals," as well. Its stated purpose is to introduce readers to where and how to find health information on the Internet, including the Web, newsgroups and related resources.

The editor and nearly all of the chapter authors or co-authors are librarians by profession, most of them affiliated with universities, usually working in medical libraries.

HIGHLIGHTS

The most thorough and useful chapter is the one by helen-ann brown [sic] and Valerie G. Rankow on various free and fee-for-service or pay-per-view gateways to searching the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE archives of medical journal articles. The co-authors include two tables that compare features and advantages of six free services that offer access to MEDLINE, plus info on four fee-based services.

These charts help readers choose which services may be preferable for their particular purposes. When the authors explain how to narrow a search to a specific focus or to stipulate search criteria (such as the prognosis for a disease), they include a sample search that explains their search strategy, lists the key words that strategy translates to in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), and shows one search result as an example. This chapter is far more valuable for the reader's long-term benefit than the many other chapters that suggest starting at megasites or Web search engines, and then repeat the same site info throughout the book.

The chapters on statistical information and medical journals are also good, although some of this information is included in others chapters where the authors didn't stick to their assigned topics. For instance, the chapter on government resources for health information digresses too far into statistical information, especially since that's the topic of the chapter by different authors that follows.

LIMITATIONS

One gets the impression that the authors or co-authors weren't aware of what each chapter in the book would cover, or at least that there wasn't sufficient guidance, oversight or actual editing to prevent the considerable redundancy and poor organization of the information. Lack of developmental editing aside, the book apparently had neither a style guide nor a copy editor, judging by the hodgepodge of headings and subheadings and the difficulty of following the presentation in some of the chapters. Even the Web addresses (URLs) aren't written consistently.

Because of the inconsistencies, redundancies and confusing organization, it becomes too tedious to read the whole book thoroughly, so most readers are likely to end up skimming, thereby perhaps missing useful how-to tips. Keeping the how-to info at the beginning of each chapter, followed by lists of annotated citations that adhere to a consistent format would improve the readability and usefulness of this book.

The hardback version was published in 1999, followed by a paperback in 2000. As nearly every chapter states, information online - what exists and, certainly, where to find it - changes daily. At the least, both editions should have included a CD-ROM with live links to the sites mentioned in each chapter, or else aggregated both by category and alphabetically. Better yet, a companion Web site that is updated at least twice a year, even as a paid-subscription service, would be far more useful than a print-only book that can't help but be outdated before it's even off the press.

The editor and five of the 17 chapter authors or co-authors are librarians in Pennsylvania - five of them, including the author, at Pennsylvania State University; four others among the authors are librarians at the University of Minneapolis; the rest are at the University of Maryland (two), the University of Michigan, the New York City area or in Florida. All have good credentials, but the concentration at certain universities and in limited geographic areas is bothersome.

SUMMARY

Despite the drawbacks of the organization and format, even readers who are familiar with the Web and other Internet resources are likely to discover several Web sites, and services offered through certain sites, that they would not have known about and may never have found without this book. Just a couple of discoveries like that can be worth the price of the book, because they could save time and help in other ways continually thereafter.

This guide for librarians and health care consumers discusses how to locate and search for health care information on the internet. Charts, figures and tables supplement details on specific web sites and their descriptions to help users both locate and evaluate health care sites.

I was disappointed with this book. I guess I had expected a fairly comprehensive survey of auction, retail, and internet prices but this contained only brief selections from important artists, e.g. five by Hokusai, three by Harunobu, a dozen or so by Hiroshige. And I agree with another post here about pricing; some estimates are dead on, but many estimates for things I've shopped for or purchased are at least double current retail.

...but indeed, where did she get those prices????? Still a good reference that provides loads of helpful information. A good addition to your Lane, if you are deeper into Ukiyo-e. And the price is absolutely reasonable for the amount of information provided. One of the few references that do not only give information about the classical artists, but also on sosaku hanga and shin hanga artists.

If you are looking for a general guide to prices for Japanese Woodblock prints this is not it. I was expecting a much more comprehensive listing, or at least a discussion about how these prints are appraised, but there are only a few price points mentioned. There is quite a bit of useful information, but this is not the good, introductory text that I was hoping for.

At one point the author says something to the effect of: "if you want to learn about Japanese Woodblock prints, go to a lot of galleries and read a lot of books on the subject." I think I kind of knew that before.

This book is a good first pass at reviewing Cancer resources on the net, yet it's 1997 publication date leaves it light years behind in "internet time." It really doesn't compare well to eMedguide's Martin Abeloff's Oncology and Hematology 2000 Internet Resource Guide, which has a companion website to keep all the information current.