News and Notices. Comm Eye Health Vol. 17 No. 49 2004. March 01, 2004

Eye diseases in hot climates: new fourth edition

John Sandford-Smith

Eye Diseases in Hot Climates is a comprehensive clinical textbook which covers the whole range of eye diseases but concentrates on the major preventable and treatable causes of world blindness.

The fourth edition of the book contains new chapters on practical refraction, HIV/AIDS and the eye, and children’s eye diseases. The other chapters have been revised and updated. The text is direct and clear and there are numerous colour illustrations as in previous editions.

This book is written specifically for the doctor, nurse or medical assistant who is seeing and treating eye patients in a tropical or developing country.

Ordering Information

Price: UK£12.00/US$20 plus £5/$9 (airmail) or £3/$5 (surface) post and packing.

Payment by credit card or banker’s order, drawn on UK or US bank account only please.

Please make payment to: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and send to IRC/ICEH, LSHTM, Keppel St., London WC1E 7HT, UK. Tel. 00 44 20 7612 7973. Email: SUE.STEVENS@LSHTM.AC.UK

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