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(2002) Bateson Publishing, Bressingham, Norfolk
Over the past twenty years craniofacial biology has been revolutionised by major developments in our understanding of the cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying embryonic development. Many of these advances have been based on animal models, most notably the fruitfly Drosophilia, the chick and the mouse. Since these developmental processes have been highly conserved during evolution, this information is relevant not only to understanding normal human development, but also to understanding how genetic mutations produce particular malformations and/or inherited diseases. This book incorporates these discoveries into the traditional morphological descriptions of craniofacial development, in a form accessible to clinicians with an interest in the head and neck. It is addressed therefore to orthodontists, plastic and maxillofacial surgeons, otolaryngolosists, paediatric dentists, and research students in developmental biology seeking an introduction to the subject.

Auckland Grammar School. Winning entry in a design competition by Auckland architects Arnold and Abbott, who had returned from California impressed by the Spanish Mission style.
Photograph by Henry Winkelmann, 5 November 1920.

The Art and Wartime Surgery of Gillies, Pickerill, McIndoe and Mowlem
(2013) Otago University Press, Dunedin
At the outbreak of the Second World War there were four full-time plastic surgeons in the United Kingdom: Gillies, Kilner, McIndoe and Mowlem, known universally as the ‘Big Four.’ Two had been born in Dunedin (Harold Gillies and Archibald McIndoe) and two (McIndoe and Rainsford Mowlem) had studied medicine at the University of Otago; by any measure, an impressive record for one of the more remote outposts of the British Empire. The story of Gillies and McIndoe is familiar to many. Less well known are the contributions of Mowlem and Henry Pickerill, foundation Dean of the University of Otago Dental School, and how their lives were shaped by a small nineteenth-century Scottish settlement at the bottom of New Zealand.

This book is a must for anyone interested in the history of medicine and the treatment of casualties in the First and Second World Wars. It is published with a DVD of Rainsford Mowlem performing a variety of plastic surgery operations in 1945.