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By Nelson B. Isada, Arie Drugan, Mark P. Johnson, and Mark I. Evans. 272 pp., illustrated. Stamford, Conn., Appleton and Lange, 1995. $75. ISBN 0-8385-6164-0.

Readers seeking a book that provides guidance on the care of the pregnant patient acutely ill with a genetic illness need to look elsewhere. However, this book is required reading for those seeking to achieve the book's stated goal: "to sensitize the obstetrician to those areas of maternal medicine that relate genetics to pregnancy with respect to their effect on the mother." As with nearly all multiauthored books, Maternal Genetic Disease is blessed and cursed by the fact that it speaks with many voices.

The outstanding chapters include one on maternal neurologic disorders that concentrates on the three most common . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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