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Edited by Maureen Paul. 426 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1993. $80. ISBN 0-683-06801-6.

Physicians are under increasing pressure from patients and the popular press to address occupational and environmental health hazards, particularly in obstetrics. In many, or even most, instances there are insufficient scientific data to allow firm conclusions. Yet physicians must respond to such concern. The editor of Occupational and Environmental Reproductive Hazards has taken on the daunting tasks of summarizing the scientific basis for the relation between environmental hazards and reproduction, providing accurate information for clinicians to give to patients, and offering recommendations for actions that are commensurate with the evidence. No other book currently on the market takes this approach.

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