Human Fetal Growth and Development First and Second Trimesters
This book addresses the complexities of growth and maturation, structural and functional developments as well as differentiations of the human fetus. Many of the authors are part of the Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research (IPGMER), w
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Human Fetal Growth and Development First and Second Trimesters
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Human Fetal Growth and Development
Niranjan Bhattacharya Phillip G. Stubblefield Editors
Human Fetal Growth and Development First and Second Trimesters
Editors Niranjan Bhattacharya Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine Kolkata India
Phillip G. Stubblefield Boston University Jamaica Plain Massachusetts USA
ISBN 978-3-319-14873-1 ISBN 978-3-319-14874-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-14874-8
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The book is dedicated to two scientists working on two sides of the globe. They are both no more but their work lives on. They were not connected to each other, had never met each other and worked in very different fields within the broad parameters of fetal growth, abortion, and continuation of pregnancy; yet they are connected by their honest and sincere dedication to scientific research. Prof. A E Beer of the University of Michigan, USA, is the father of the “Beer Baby.” He was one of the best known Reproductive Immunologist in the world during his lifetime. From 1977 till his death he had regular correspondence with Dr. Niranjan Bhattacharya, then a young scientist, a correspondence that spanned thousands of questions raised by Dr. Bhattacharya and answered patiently and in great depth by Dr. Beer. Once Dr. Bhattacharya went to meet him in 1986 at Ann Abor and after a talk of over two hours felt that Dr. Beer was not his usual self. He queried him about this, and Dr. Beer’s answer reflects the man he was and his dedication to science: “I am sorry but my brother is now undergoing corrective operation for the dissecting aneurism of the aorta, but I had given you an appointment…” Prof. Chameli Ganguly was a Physiologist-
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