49 THE FOETO-PLACENTAL UNIT 



1969 

 Editors: A. Pecile and C. Finzi Excerpta Medica Foundation 



Excerpta Medica Intern. Congress Amsterdam - London - New York etc. 

 Series No. 183 Price: H.fl. 102,60 



434 pp.. 205 figs., 141 tbs. 



Contributors: Aledjem (Augusta, Ga.), Aleem (Belfast), Alsat (Paris), Bailo (Milan), 

 Benirschke (Hanov^er, N.H.), Bertrand (Lyon), Bhavnani (Montreal), Biezenski (Brooklyn, 

 N.Y.), Bolte (Montreal), Branchaud (Montreal), Brina (Milan), Burt (Winston-Salem, N.C.), 

 Candiani (Milan), Cedard (Paris), Chan (Montreal), Chiesara (Milan), Conti (Milan), 

 Crosignani (Milan), Dana (Boston, Mass.), Diczfalusy (Stockholm), Emerson (Boston, Mass.), 

 Fabro (Washington, D.C.), Finzi (Milan), Fioretti (Siena), Fox (Manchester), Frandsen 

 (Copenhagen), Freese (Chicago, 111.), Gattereau (Montreal), Genazzani (Siena), Giannopoulos 

 (Montreal), Giroud (Montreal), Hall (Montreal), Hellig (Montreal), Hill (Houston, Tex.), 

 Hinselmann (Frankfurt), Holzmann (Heidelberg), Homing (Houston, Tex.), Horzka (Prague), 

 Jirasek (Prague), Juchau (Buffalo, N.Y.), Kaeser (Frankfurt), Klein (Montreal), Kleiner 

 (Brussels), Kubli (Frankfurt), Lanman (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Lefebvre (Montreal), Lemtis 

 (Berlin), Leung (Montreal), Ling (Montreal), Lister (Leeds), Loring (Boston, Mass.), Mares 

 (Prague), Messina (Siena), Nyklicek (Nachod), Panigel (Paris), Pardi (Milan), Pecile 

 (Milan), Polvani (Milan), Rilke (Milan), Runnebaum (Heidelberg), Ryan (Cleveland, Ohio), 

 Saez (Lyon), Saxena (Boston, Mass.), Schweitzer (Montreal), Selenkow (Boston, Mass.), 

 Sieber (Washington, D.C.), Sieber (Heidelberg), Solomon (Montreal), Starka (Prague), 

 Stem (Montreal), Sulcova (Prague), Sullivan (Hanover, N.H.), Surace (Paris), Tsai (Bos- 

 ton, Mass.), Uher (Prague), Urtasun (Paris), Varangot (Paris), Vedra (Prague), Vierucci 

 (Siena), Villee (Boston, Mass.), Von Miinstermann (Heidelberg), Waterbury (Houston, 

 Tex.), Wigglesworth (London), Yaffe (Buffalo, N.Y.), Younglai (Montreal), Zander (Hei- 

 delberg), Zardini (Paris), Zidovsky (Prague) 



This book embodies the papers read at an international Symposium held in 

 Milan in September 1968. As the President, Prof. C. A. Villee, points out in 

 his foreword, a particularly striking instance of the interdependence of the 

 foetus and the placenta is the synthesis of oestrogens. This provided the 

 impetus for the present symposium. It was attended by about 300 investigators 

 from all over the world. 



The 39 research papers are arranged in five groups as follows: I. "Struc- 

 tural and ultrastructural studies" (5 papers); II. "Immunology" (3); III. "En- 

 docrinology" (13); IV. "Physio-pharmacological aspects" (9); V. "Clinical 

 investigations (9). The discussions held at the Symposium are not recorded. 



The book is beautifully produced on heavy-quality glossy paper, but this 

 has led to an unduly high price. The illustrations are excellent. The book is 

 concluded by an extensive subject index and an index to contributors. 



50 FOETAL AUTONOMY 



1969 

 Editors: G. E. W. Wolstenholme and M. O'Connor J. & A. Churchill Ltd. 

 Ciba Foundation Symposium London 



336 pp., 72 figs., 18 tbs. SBN 7000 1418 7 



Price: 70 s. 



Contributors: Dawes (Oxford), Alexander (London), Britton (London), Buller (Bristol), 

 Cross (London), Currie (London). Fuchs (New York, N.Y.) Ginsburg, J. (London), Gins- 

 burg, B. E. (Storrs, Conn.), Harris (Oxford), Hoet (Louvain), Josimovich (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 

 Jost (Paris), Kirby (Oxford), Levine (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liggins (Auckland), Pattle (Salis- 

 bury), Rudolph (San Francisco, Calif.), Rutter (Seattle. Wash.). Shelley (Oxford), Short 

 (Cambridge), Silver (Cambridge). Strang (London), Tuchmann-Duplessis (Paris). 



This international and interdisciplinary Symposium was held at Ciba House, 

 London, in December 1968. 



A broad spectrum of subjects was covered during the Symposium. They 

 roughly fall under the following headings: implantation and maternal recog- 

 nition; immunological aspects; protein synthesis; metabolism; endocrinology; 

 lung development; circulation and blood; perinatal physiology (including the 



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