Herpetological Osteopathology Annotated Bibliography of Amphibians a
Sir William Osler, a famous 19th century physician, observed that diagnosis without knowing the literature is like going to sea without charts. This book provides the database for identifying the state of the art/knowledge related to herpetological
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Bruce M. Rothschild Hans-Peter Schultze Rodrigo Pellegrini
Herpetological Osteopathology Annotated Bibliography of Amphibians and Reptiles
Bruce M. Rothschild University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas, USA [email protected]
Hans-Peter Schultze University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Rodrigo Pellegrini New Jersey State Museum Trenton, New Jersey, USA
ISBN 978-1-4614-0823-9 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-0824-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0824-6 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011941386 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Sir William Osler, a famous nineteenth-century physician observed that diagnosis without knowing the literature is like going to sea without charts. The purpose of the current text is to provide the charts: The delineation of available literature on the subject. This approach reconciles a very disparate literature and facilitates access by herpetologists and other professionals interested in amphibian and reptile disease. It should be of interest to anyone working on animal models of disease and their behavioral implications. The book is designed to also be accessible to non-herpetologists with specific information available by common and scientific name and by disease or disease category, with a full glossary of terms provided. The book is annotated to identify mistaken/superseded diagnoses and changes in taxonomic classification. The book provides a “library” for macroscopic osseous manifestations of a variety of diseases in higher vertebrates facilitating understanding of literature-based diagnoses. One of the challenges of research is that even the existence of articles related to a particular subject may be hidden by the rarity and obscurity of the publication. The literature of osseous pathology is rife with disparate citation, such that a whole set of topical publications has not previously been available in a single source. For example, shell disease in contemporary turtles has been a source of confusion, partially fueled by a disparate literature. The critical studies on turtle shell pathogenesis were published in literature sources not cited in the standard studies of structural pathology. This is an example of one of the import
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