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This is the third book chronicling the scientific activities of the
European Society for Photobiology (ESP). It contains 56 chapters,
written by authors from 16 countries, based on presentations at the
3rd Congress of the European Society for Photobiology held in
Budapest, Hungary on the 27th August - 2nd September 1989. The
science of photobiology, which can simply be defined as the study
of the effects of light on living matter, covers so many subject
areas that no single book can hope to do justice to them all. This
multidisciplinary nature of photobiology is reflected by the
material covered in this volume, which contains chapters on such
diverse themes as motile photoresponses in bacteria, cancer therapy
and photosynthesis. Interestingly, the emphasis placed on various
subject areas differs quite markedly from the preceding volume
('Light in Biology & Medicine, volume 1, eds. R. Douglas, J.
Moan & F. Dall'Acqua, Plenum Press, 1988). It is hoped that by
highlighting different areas of photobiology these and future
pUblications emanating from the ESP will, in time, produce a
comprehensive record of photobiological research, . not only in
Europe but throughout the world. Unlike many conference proceedings
all the chapters con tained within this book have been subjected to
rigorous peer review and several potential contributions were
rejected during the editing process. Furthermore, most manuscripts
underwent extensive editing to try and produce chapters of a
uniform format and standard."
The fIrst edition of the Science 0/ Photobiology edited by Kendric
C. Smith (plenum Press, 1977) was a comprehensive textbook of
photobiology, devoting a chapter to each of the subdisciplines of
the fIeld. At the end of many of these chapters there were brief
descriptions of simple experiments that students could perform to
demonstrate the principles discussed. In the succeeding years some
photobiologists felt that a more complete publica tion of
experiments in photobiology would be a useful teaching tool. Thus,
in the 1980s the American Society for Photobiology (ASP) attempted
to produce a laboratory manual in photobiology. Cognizant of these
efforts, Kendric Smith elected to publish the second edition of The
Science o/Photobiology (1989) without experiments; anticipating the
comple tion of the ASP laboratory manual. Unfortunately, the
initial ASP efforts met with limited success, and several years
were to pass before a photobiology laboratory manual became a
reality. One of the major stumbling blocks to production of an
accurate and reliable laboratory manual was the requirement that
the experiments be tested, not just by the author who is familiar
with the techniques, but by students who may be quite new to
photobiology. How could this be accomplished with limited
resources? Many ideas were considered and discarded, before a
workable solution was found. The catalyst that enabled the careful
screening of all experiments in this book was a NATO Advanced Study
Institute (ASI) devoted entirely to this purpose."
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