With so many books on headache available, is there any place for yet another? For this book there is, but not because it is up to date (though it is), not because it is comprehensive (it isn't), and not because it treats the current controversies in headache objectively (it doesn't). This monograph is highly selective, unrepentantly biased, and does not, as promised in the title, deal so much with diagnosis and management as it does with nosology, neurophysiology, drug trial methodology, and the sociology of consultations. The clinical chapters discuss uncommon subjects such as giant cell arteritis, postherpetic neuralgia, and