(Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine.) Edited by Roy Porter. 297 pp., illustrated. New York, Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1993. $87.50. ISBN 0-415-07217-4.
It is easy, in the late 20th century, to acknowledge the importanceof popularization in any well-rounded understanding of the socialaspects of medicine. It is far harder to define "popularization"precisely and to study it in detail using specific historicalcases. The authors of these essays strive to do just that --to give the idea of popularization more precision and to chartits constituent processes in a historically focused manner.Most of the 10 chapters deal with the 18th and 19th centuries,and despite their broad geographic range (Britain, France, Spain,Hungary, and the United States), they return . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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