Book excerpt: New edition of a compendium of 49 contributions, arranged in nine sections on perspectives (e.g. history of infections in hospitals, and cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis); management (e.g. regulation, organizing for infection control with limited resources, controversies in isolation policies and practices); epidemiology methods; special locations; special problems; environmental issues; preventing specific infections; and special patients (the newborn, children, the elderly, organ and bone marrow transplant recipients, AIDS patients, and blood recipients). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR