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Jones and Doherty (rheumatology, U. of Nottingham, UK) present an illustrated guide that outlines the diagnosis and treatment of osteoarthritis, for doctors in training, primary care physicians, and rheumatologists. Incorporating images, photos, and drawings throughout, they explain its epidemiology, mortality and co-morbidity, subsets, etiology and pathogenesis, patient presentation, osteoarthritis in different sites, investigations, principles of management, prevention, education and information, exercise, reduction of adverse mechanical factors, pharmacological therapy, surgery, and drug induced disease modification. There is no bibliography. Published by Clinical Publishing, UK, an imprint of Atlas Medical Publishing Ltd; distributed in the US by BookMasters. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)