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110 Book Review Dr stulc’s letter was forwarded to Professor Panigel, who responds: Sir I hope that Placenta will always remain open to scientific evaluations which are intended to improve publications on the placenta. It is surprising that the critic of my review on Placental Physiology did not find any omissions of subjects in this textbook, for he himself states that it deals ‘nearly exclusively with placental transport’ (excluding, among other topics, in vitro physiology and pharmacology of the perfused human placenta). Let us hope that the review, far from discouraging any reader, will convince the authors of this book either to change its title or to complete the book (correcting the misprints, of course) if they consider publishing another edition. Yours faithfully M. Panigel Paris, France Book Review Feeding the Mother and Infant (Ed.) Myron Winick. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons (1985). 164 pp. E51.60. ISBN 471-830496. Number 14 in Winick’s established series Current Concepts in Nutrition, this book represents the proceedings of a meeting held in New York in late 1983 and published two years later. The 11 short chapters are really short essays by people who are already experts in their field, summarizing selected subjects without any attempt to be as comprehensive as the title may suggest. They will make good bedside reading for anyone already familiar with the subject, and will serve as introductions for graduate students and others not so familiar, but, for the latter, they will be only signposts. I particularly liked Dancis on ‘Nutrition of the placenta and fetus’, Smithells on ‘Vitamins and neural tube defects’, and Pamela Fitzhardinge on ‘Follow-up studies on small-for-dates infants’. Neither the essays themselves nor the book as a whole are exhaustive, but they are nicely produced and make a good read. Three complaints: the only way I knew it was a ‘book of a meeting’ was by hunting out the small print behind the title page detailing the Library of Congress ‘Cataloging and Publication Data’. I think this should appear more prominently in such books. Second, the delay in publishing (two years after the meeting) is excessive, as is (third) the price, which may well put the book beyond the reach of anyone but this reviewer who is tempted to keep his (free) copy in the strong-room. JOHN DOBBING

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110 Book Review

Dr stulc’s letter was forwarded to Professor Panigel, who responds:

Sir

I hope that Placenta will always remain open to scientific evaluations which are intended to improve publications on the placenta. It is surprising that the critic of my review on Placental Physiology did not find any omissions of subjects in this textbook, for he himself states that it deals ‘nearly exclusively with placental transport’ (excluding, among other topics, in vitro physiology and pharmacology of the perfused human placenta).

Let us hope that the review, far from discouraging any reader, will convince the authors of this book either to change its title or to complete the book (correcting the misprints, of course) if they consider publishing another edition.

Yours faithfully M. Panigel Paris, France

Book Review

Feeding the Mother and Infant (Ed.) Myron Winick. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons (1985). 164 pp. E51.60. ISBN 471-830496.

Number 14 in Winick’s established series Current Concepts in Nutrition, this book represents the proceedings of a meeting held in New York in late 1983 and published two years later.

The 11 short chapters are really short essays by people who are already experts in their field, summarizing selected subjects without any attempt to be as comprehensive as the title may suggest. They will make good bedside reading for anyone already familiar with the subject, and will serve as introductions for graduate students and others not so familiar, but, for the latter, they will be only signposts. I particularly liked Dancis on ‘Nutrition of the placenta and fetus’, Smithells on ‘Vitamins and neural tube defects’, and Pamela Fitzhardinge on ‘Follow-up studies on small-for-dates infants’. Neither the essays themselves nor the book as a whole are exhaustive, but they are nicely produced and make a good read.

Three complaints: the only way I knew it was a ‘book of a meeting’ was by hunting out the small print behind the title page detailing the Library of Congress ‘Cataloging and Publication Data’. I think this should appear more prominently in such books. Second, the delay in publishing (two years after the meeting) is excessive, as is (third) the price, which may well put the book beyond the reach of anyone but this reviewer who is tempted to keep his (free) copy in the strong-room.

JOHN DOBBING