It is a superficial account, drawn mostly, to judge by the footnotes, from reference books, though interspersed with a few anecdotes (and too many trivial mistakes).
The novelist and journalist Martha Gellhorn is unsurprisingly deep and serious; her reply to Bernstein's letter about meeting her ex-husband, Ernest Hemingway, blows Bernstein's superficial account out of the water.
The 1979 Polish film Sekret Enigmy (The Enigma Secret) is a generally fair, if superficial, account of the Cipher Bureau's story.
Sometimes he relies heavily on largely superseded works, sometimes on superficial accounts in cases where a large, relevant, more specialist literature exists.
Here's a taste: "Whereas Doherty relied on flawed, superficial accounts in domestic trade papers, Urwand discovered a vast array of primary source materials…." In the past, disputes between scholars were hashed out in academic journals and conferences, not by hired guns.
Based on the literature on single episode patient removals we considered that to interview GPs with no specific role in working with 'revolving door' patients might lead to superficial accounts of professionally acceptable practice.
Estimates suggest that 30 to 70% of adults are asymptomatic carriers of these fungi [ 1]. T. rubrum is the most common superficial fungus, accounting for at least 60% of all superficial fungal infections in humans.
Trichophyton rubrum is a worldwide pathogen causing various superficial infections, accounting for at least 60% of dermatophytosis, such as tinea capitis, tinea corporis, tinea inguinalis, tinea manus, tinea unguium and tinea pedis [ 1- 4].
The superficial spreading type accounted for 5.46% of all early gastric cancers.
For the tumour subtype, superficial spreading melanoma accounted for 36 cases, lentigo maligna melanoma 13 cases, acrolentigous melanoma two cases, nodular melanoma 13 cases and the remaining 15 cases were unspecified.
A generalized empirical relationship which takes into account the superficial fluidization velocity, aspect ratio of the channels, angle of inclination of the channels and particle Reynolds number was developed in order to describe the broad range of experimental data.
