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| Preface | ||
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| 1 | Endocrinology of the Transition from Recurring Estrous Cycles to Establishment of Pregnancy in Subprimate Mammals | 1 |
| 2 | Endocrinology of the Transition from Menstrual Cyclicity to Establishment of Pregnancy in Primates | 35 |
| 3 | Role of Cytokines in the Pregnant Uterus of Interstitial Implanting Species | 59 |
| 4 | Role of Growth Factors of Uterine and Fetal-Placental Origin During Pregnancy | 83 |
| 5 | Novel Concepts in Neuroendocrine Regulation of Reproductive Tract Functions | 125 |
| 6 | The Rodent Placental Prolactin Family and Pregnancy | 145 |
| 7 | Expression of Steroid Hormone Receptors in the Pregnant Uterus | 177 |
| 8 | Endocrine Control of Trophoblast-Uterine Epithelial Cell Interactions | 199 |
| 9 | The Influences of Immune Cells on the Success of Pregnancy | 229 |
| 10 | Secretion and Metabolism of Steroids in Subprimate Mammals During Pregnancy | 291 |
| 11 | Secretion and Metabolism of Steroids in Primate Mammals During Pregnancy | 319 |
| 12 | Endocrine Maturation of the Fetus | 353 |
| 13 | Development and Function of the Fetal Endocrine System | 387 |
| 14 | Endocrine Control of Parturition | 407 |
| 15 | Multiple Physiological Effects of Relaxin During Pregnancy | 431 |
| 16 | Placental Lactogen and Growth Hormone: Regulation and Action | 461 |
| 17 | Stromal-Epithelial Cell Communication in the Female Reproductive Tract | 491 |
| 18 | Maternal Cardiovascular and Other Physiologic Responses to the Endocrinology of Pregnancy | 507 |
| 19 | The Endocrinology of Uterine Decidualization | 541 |
| 20 | Endocrine Regulation of Maternal Behavior Postpartum | 555 |
| Index | 569 |
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Richard Glenister
reviewed The Endocrinology of Pregnancy, Vol. 9 on August 26, 2013
The Endocrinology of Pregnancy
I approached this book with high hopes - after reading Iain McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary, I was ready to dig into Stephen Hall's Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience. Almost immediately I realized I was going to be disappointed. Hall opens with a montage of dropping his daughter off at school, then watching a jet fly into the World Trade Center. "Almost immediately black smoke began to curl out of the cruel, grinning incision its wings had sliced in the façade of the skyscraper." I was reminded of Art Spiegelman's disturbing In the Shadow of No Towers (essentially the same opening) - and one graphic account is plenty. You always know a discussion is headed downhill when either Hitler or 9/11 is evoked.
The next chapter focuses on the pre-Socratics and the "Axial Age" - although "focuses" is the wrong verb. The ancient Greeks are difficult even in a more extended study; Hall's survey is a mashup. After that I started skipping through the book, reading intermittently - and realized he'd lost me. Two days after I'd bought Wisdom, it was on the "for resale" pile.
Hall is a science journalist, so my disappointment is my own fault. I'd rather have more philosophy and science, and fewer "telling" personal anecdotes. I should have read a bit more while standing in the bookstore.
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