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Edited by Marshall A. Lichtman, Jerry L. Spivak, Laurence A. Boxer, Sanford J. Shattil, and Edward S. Henderson. 1065 pp., illustrated. San Diego, Calif., Academic Press, 2000. $149.95. ISBN 0-12-448510-3.

Napoleon once observed that history is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on. And so it is with Hematology: Landmark Papers of the Twentieth Century. This anthology of 86 papers was assembled from an initial list of 450 articles by sequential votes of the five editors, who "focused on articles that pioneered the clinical description, pathogenesis, diagnosis, or treatment of disease." One could quibble with the decision to exclude basic sciences and "pathological insights" because they had such a key role in the evolution of hematology from a descriptive clinical specialty to a discipline . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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