By all accounts, readers of either have seldom, if ever, been disappointed.Īs in previous editions, the latest Robbins Basic Pathology focuses on major disease entities and unapologetically omits “rare and esoteric” lesions. Indeed, all those interested in obtaining reliable general pathology information beyond medical school, from resident trainees to senior pathologists, have turned to these books. Over the past 50 years or so, this pair of Robbins has almost inarguably maintained their status as the top two choices for imparting pathology education.
The bigger book has always provided broader, and the smaller has delivered narrower, detail. The latest edition of the latter is now available. The substantial progenitor (“fat”) book referred to in the aforesaid quotation is the one that has evolved into Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, and the “thin” one is now Robbins Basic Pathology. Stanley Robbins (preface to the first edition of Basic Pathology, 1971)
In a sense, this book bears such a relationship to its more substantial progenitor. Of books as well as men, it may be observed that fat ones contain thin ones struggling to get out.
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