N A Athanasou. (£140.00.) Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0 192 62792 9.

This book provides the reader with what the title promises. Taking numerous and almost all high quality pictures as starting points, different areas in orthopaedic pathology are covered with small bits of text providing the most relevant clinical and histological details. It starts off with an overview of normal structure and development, then turns to repair, necrosis, and reactive changes in skeletal tissue, and continues with infections of bone and joint. I found these chapters quite …