Clinical Chemistry: Theory, Analysis, Correlation, 3rd ed. Lawrence A. Kaplan and Amadeo J. Pesce. St. Louis, MO: Mosby, 1996, 1064 pp, $69.95. ISBN 0-8151-5243-4

This highly successful and comprehensive textbook of clinical chemistry has become one of the two authoritative texts in the field. The new edition has 57 chapters, 9 appendixes, and 113 contributors (up from 96 in the 2nd edition). The author list is a who’s who of clinical chemistry today.In a major organizational change, the 3rd edition includes analytical methods at the end of each pathophysiology chapter rather than in a separate section at the end of the book. This greatly improves the continuity of the presented …