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Volume 329:514-515 August 12, 1993 Number 7

Obstetrics in the 1990s: Current Controversies

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(Clinics in Developmental Medicine. Nos. 123/124.) Edited by T. Chard and M.P.M. Richards. 249 pp. London, Mac Keith, 1992. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-41282-X. (Distributed in the U.S. by Cambridge University Press, New York.)

The practice of reproductive medicine is inherently controversial. This is a function not only of the accelerating pace of technological advances and their rapid assimilation into clinical practice, but also of the conflicts encountered in a discipline in which the distinction between physiology and pathology is often unclear. Fifteen years after the publication of Benefits and Hazards of the New Obstetrics (London: Heinemann Medical, 1977), the original editors have assembled a new panel of distinguished commentators to provide another snapshot of contemporary obstetrical practice in Obstetrics in the 1990s.

The British collection of essays is not an encyclopedic management textbook . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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