This volume tells us a great deal about the success and limitations of geriatrics. The third of the American Geriatrics Society's volumes since 1967, it represents a substantial updating of information, with at least six new chapters and a number of new authors. All the chapters show evidence of revision. Reading this book is very much like attending a series of continuing medical education lectures given by persons knowledgeable in their areas of special expertise. It is very much a clinical text written by clinicians who draw on personal experience or others' reports of case series rather than more analytic data. It synthesizes the wisdom of geriatrics, but not necessarily its science. The reader can turn to this volume for a great deal of practical information about the management of disease and functional problems in the geriatric population. However, it is not as easy to separate what is known from
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Robert L Kane (1984) studied this question.