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Edited by Marita Eisenmann-Klein and Constance Neuhann-Lorenz
494 pp, $279
New York, NY, Springer, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-3-5404-6321-4

JAMA. 2009;302(14):1595-1596.

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As the editors of Innovations in Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery state in their preface, plastic surgery is a relatively nascent discipline, one that initially grew out of efforts to address some of the devastating injuries of World War I. Formal training was not established until after World War II, and the discipline did not reach maturity until formal residency programs were established in the 1960s. The field has always relied to an unusual degree on innovation, lacking an anatomical region or organ system that it can call its own. The inspiration for this book came out of a 2007 international congress in Berlin, and the book has a uniquely international perspective, with 58 contributing chapters by 120 authors from Europe, South America, and Asia as well has a handful (8 chapters) from the United States.

A major strength is the emphasis on what is new and innovative, reflected in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Thomas A. Mustoe, MD, Reviewer
Division of Plastic Surgery
Department of Surgery
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois
tmustoe@nmh.org

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