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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
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Subject: Re: Query: books on the history of medicine
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Date: Mon, 9-Apr-84 16:09:51 EST
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Here are some responses I received by mail to my request for books on
the history of medicine.  Thanks to all who replied!
 
>> Try "Rockefeller Medicine Men:  Medicine & Capitalism in America" by E.
>> Richard Brown (University of California Press, 1979).
>> 				-- ncsu!golio
 
>> The best book around for beginners is a book called THE GREAT DOCTORS
>> by Henry Sigerist.  The book is available at most libraries that are
>> worth anything.  The book is also available from dover books if you
>> happen to have a bookshop that has a good collection of dover books.
>> 				-- mark shifman   ...mcnc!ecsvax!mas
 
>> I recommend Lewis Thomas's recent autobiography.
>> 				-- Tom Long

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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