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The Placenta and Neurodisability
(Clinics in Developmental Medicine. No. 169.) Edited by Philip Baker and Colin Sibley. 153 pp., illustrated. London, Mac Keith Press, 2006. $75. ISBN 978-1-898-68344-5.

Biology and Pathology of Trophoblast
Edited by Ashley Moffett, Charlie Loke, and Anne McLaren. 272 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. $110. ISBN 978-0-521-85165-7.

For readers who are unaware of the marvels of the placenta — as a diagnostic tool, as a predictor of neonatal and adult morbidity, as an elegant and powerful system for studying the biology of cancer and immune tolerance, and simply as a fascinatingly cool organ — the book The Placenta and Neurodisability will rock their world.

One of the newest installments in the Clinics in Developmental Medicine series, the book evolved from meetings held in 1996 and 2003 for the purpose of discussing the relationship between the placenta and neonatal neuronal "disability." (For the placental . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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