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Volume 336:1921 June 26, 1997 Number 26
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Potter's Pathology of the Fetus and Infant

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Edited by Enid Gilbert-Barness. 1678 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby, 1997. $299.95. ISBN 0-8016-7870-6.

Multidisciplinary collaboration is the basis for many of the advances in pediatric pathology over the past 75 years. The contributions of Edith Potter span the early and middle years of this period of extraordinary progress. A true pioneer, she was among the few who worked to establish pediatric pathology in the face of indifferent peers. Motivated by her conviction that the causes of infant mortality were susceptible to analysis with the use of careful autopsies, in 1951 she summarized half a career of observations in Pathology of the Fetus and Newborn, the first book on this subject to be published . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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