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Radiation Exposure and Occupational Risks. Ed. by E. Scherer, C. Streffer and K. Trott, pp. v+150, 1990 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin), DM148. ISBN 3–540–51174–1

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This relatively slim volume is in Springer's "Medical Radiology" series, and is therefore presumably aimed at practising medical imagers and radiation oncologists—a group who should know about radiation risks, but who, at least in the UK, are remarkably un-informed if not positively ill-informed! Sadly, however, although this volume is an updated version of an excellent 1985 German edition and has tremendous value as a source book, it is not sufficiently "user friendly" for radiologists to want to read it. The absence of "executive summary" of the major points made in each of the five otherwise excellent chapters, is a crucial structural omission.