Medicine And Books
The Prisoners' Handbook 1995
BMJ 1995; 310 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.310.6994.1615a (Published 17 June 1995) Cite this as: BMJ 1995;310:1615- Ed Walker
Ed Mark Leech Oxford University Press, pounds sterling9.99, pp 407 ISBN 0 19 825939 5
Normally I avoid cliches. But the phrase “Everything you ever wanted to know about…” really can be applied to The Prisoners' Handbook except that the second half should read: “and didn't even know you needed to ask.”
Mark Leech, the book's editor, has been described in one interview as a self publicist. This was presumably intended pejoratively, but I …
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