Editors:

D.TAYLOR-ROBINSON, MD
Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, MRC Clinical Research Center, Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date of publication:

1985

Published by:

Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht.

ARC Catalog Number:

HC4.3.T3C2

Description:

The approach taken in this book has not been to consider individual infectious agents and evaluate what they do and do not cause but to consider clinical conditions and what might be responsible for them. To cover the complete spectrum of the sexually transmitted diseases in a comprehensive way now takes a text book of massive proportion. No attempt has been made to do this here, but the topics considered do cover in an easily manageable volume a majority of the clinical problems encountered by physicians in this field. The approach has been to consider first problems primarily affecting men, then those affecting women and finally those which affect both, concluding with a chapter on the acquired immune deficiency syndrome: last but certainly not least. Although information on latter topic will rapidly become out of date no current discussion of the sexually transmitted diseases can do without its coverage. To accomplish all of this, a group of contributors has been brought together each of whom is actively engaged in research in the topic concerned and who understands the problems.
The book should provide an authoritative and up-to-date account of current clinical problems and hopefully will be of value not only to clinicians who deal with patients but also to research workers and, indeed, all those who are concerned with the problems of diagnosing, treating and controlling sexually transmitted diseases, problems which are likely to be with us for the unforeseeable future.