Humanism and the physician

or quotes are paraphrased, losing the colour of the original event. The press itself must take the blame for rather disappointing production: besides many typographical errors, the print is strangely difficult to read. However, Morris Vogel's book is, overall, very useful. He has successfully treated his topic as a social development, where patients and governors, local politicians and ethnic leaders, all take their place with medical men. In that, it is a refreshing piece of social history. Lindsay Granshaw University College London, and St. Mark's Hospital