FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 356:2550-2551 June 14, 2007 Number 24 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF PDA Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited E-mail When Letters Appear

(Hematologic Malignancies.) Edited by Junia V. Melo and John M. Goldman. 354 pp., illustrated. Berlin, Springer, 2007. $169. ISBN 978-3-540-34505-3.

William Dameshek was my teacher in hematology from 1957 until his death in 1969. He was a pioneer in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease, autoimmune diseases of the blood, and acute leukemia. He was one of the founders of the American Society of Hematology and started, with the support of the medical book publisher Henry Stratton, Blood, the journal of hematology. His 1958 textbook Leukemia (New York: Grune & Stratton), written with Frederick Gunz and featuring beautiful watercolor paintings of leukemia cells by Professor Y. Kawakita of Kumamoto University, Japan, is a classic that continues in its seventh edition under . . . [Full Text of this Article]

HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org Comments and questions? Please contact us. The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.