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Science 27 August 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5432, p. 1362
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5432.1362
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HISTORY OF MEDICINE:
Curing and Caring--The Long View

A review by John V. Pickstone

Mending Bodies, Saving Souls A History of Hospitals
Guenter B. Risse
Oxford University Press, New York, 1999. 736 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-505523-3.

Weaving narratives by patients and caregivers into his detailed considerations of a dozen institutions characteristic of their time and place (ranging from ancient Greece to the era of AIDS), Risse provides a thought-provoking interpretation of the developments that have led to today's hospitals.

The author is at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine and Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Mathematics Tower, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. E-mail: pickstone{at}fs4.ma.man.ac.uk

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