The practice of enteral and parenteral nutrition support has evolved significantly in recent years, in response to an increasing number of basic, preclinical, and clinical investigations in the field. This text by Payne-James et al. provides a comprehensive, practical, and state-of-the-art textbook that should be useful to multidisciplinary health care personnel (physicians, dietitians, pharmacists, and nurses) involved in the clinical diagnosis and the treatment of nutritional disorders in hospitalized and home patients, as well as patient-orientated investigators in this field. Although the trust of the book is primarily concerned with specialized nutrition support in clinical care and in specific disease states, other chapters provide basic and translational information on nutritional physiology and pathophysiology that will be useful to medical students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral trainees interested in nutrition science.