The Endocrinology of Parturition

Understanding the processes by which we ourselves are born is arguably one of the greatest current challenges in clinical medicine. The prevention of preterm delivery, the cause of 70-80% of neonatal morbidity, has become a key area of research. 'The Endocrinology of Parturition' provides an encyclopedia of human parturition which charts the progress of this goal. ¨ In nineteen chapters of authoritative writing this volume covers a wide range of topics from the comparative endocrinology of mamma