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Edited by John C. Sinclair and Michael B. Bracken. 650 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1992. $150. ISBN 0-19-261737-0.

"'Organized skepticism' is alive and well in neonatal medicine and in obstetrics." So states William Silverman in the foreword to Effective Care of the Newborn Infant, edited by John Sinclair and Michael Bracken. Indeed, this collection of reviews of the present evidence for and against interventions used in the neonatal period provides numerous examples of why skepticism is warranted.

In this book, 37 authors review observational studies and clinical trials of interventions currently used by neonatologists. The reviews are organized into a section on interventions and a section dealing with specific disease entities. The first section, which deals with methods . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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