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Edited by Alan D. Michelson. 956 pp., illustrated. San Diego, Calif., Academic Press, 2002. $249.95. ISBN 0-12-493951-1.
Edited by Paolo Gresele, Clive P. Page, Valentin Fuster, and Jos Vermylen. 1101 pp., illustrated. Cambridge, United Kingdom, Cambridge University Press, 2002. $350. ISBN 0-521-80261-X.

The simultaneous publication of two large, multiauthored books devoted to blood platelets is a landmark in hematology. In 1970, when I completed my training, I changed my research focus from red cells (the interest of my mentors) to platelets. Very little was known about platelets at that time; it was an open field for a beginning investigator. What a difference three decades have made. These two books represent the progressive narrowing of focus that is essential to the description of expanding knowledge. When I was beginning my career, books in this subspecialty were simply titled Hematology; later, books on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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