The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2005;87:2369-2370.
© 2005 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.
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Book Review

Basic Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Mechano-Biology. 3rd ed.

A. Seth Greenwald, DPhil(Oxon)1

1 Orthopaedic Research Laboratories
Lutheran Hospital
Cleveland Clinic Health System
Cleveland, Ohio

Van C. Mow and Rik Huiskes, editors. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins; 2005. 720 pages. $110.00.

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The lofty title of this book is descriptive of the rapidly advancing state of knowledge regarding the role of mechanics in our ever-expanding understanding of the musculoskeletal system and its constituent materials. The book has grown by three chapters and more than 200 pages since the second edition, which was published in 1997. While several of the authors are new, others have been maintained, and the text flourishes through their various contributions. Although entire text-books have been devoted to the history of science, the author of the first chapter of this textbook succinctly describes the march of progress with specific regard to the appreciation of biomechanical concepts. The evolving contributions of many individuals, from ancient to modern times, are described in a way that compliments our predecessors while acknowledging that they themselves stood on what Sir Isaac Newton termed "the shoulders of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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