The Encyclopedia of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Available to Purchase

Facts on File started publishing their Library of Health and Living series about ten years ago, with around 50 titles out already, some of them in their second or even third editions. I find them slightly variable in quality. In fact the best seem to me to be the most specialised – Parkinson's Disease and Breast Cancer appear better than Children's Health. All are worth noticing however, and several have indeed been reviewed in these columns. They all attempt the difficult task of making up to date medical information comprehensible to the general reader. Those of us who have tried...