Janet McCredie £35.00,  978-1-85315-741-7,  432pp,  Hardback,  October 2007

Ulster Medical Journal
'This is a fascinating read. ... I would commend this book as an invaluable text to those who deal with Thalidomide cases and to those engaged in teratogenic studies. (It) demonstrates how an active intellect couples with knowledge and persistence can move forward the boundaries of knowledge.'

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
It was a pleasure to read this outstanding and scholarly monograph, the fruit of Professor Janet McCredie’s 30 years’ experience in the field. The book puts together beautifully, through clear prosem excellent illustrations and an extensive bibliography, the story of thalidomide and the spin-offs there from. I congratulate Professor McCredie on her book and hope it achieves the landmark status it certainly deserves.

How do birth defects happen? Why does thalidomide mutilate the embryo? In this challenging text the author takes a new approach to the resulting disordered anatomy and demonstrates that the skeletal defects seen are inconsistent with primary bone disease, but indicate primary damage to the embryonic sensory nerves - neural crest injury. This book will be of interest to those involved with birth defects - obstetricians, neonatologists, paediatricians - and also neurologists, scientists in teratology and developmental biology, and thalidomiders themselves.

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