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By Leonard F. Peltier. 304 pp., illustrated. San Francisco, Norman, 1993. $225. ISBN 0-930405-47-1.

Physicians in breathless pursuit of state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic techniques sometimes need to pause and take stock. An examination of how medical specialties evolved can summon reflections on the wisdom and vision embodied in the origins of current techniques and practice. Orthopedics: A History and Iconography offers that opportunity.

This book has 331 pictures and engravings from historical sources and portraits of physicians who had a substantial impact on the emergence of orthopedics as a distinct specialty. It is organized according to disease categories rather than chronologically. In this way, the reader gains a broad overview of the effect of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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