Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Theodore M. Brown. 387 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. $39.95. ISBN 0-8018-5355-9.
Few historians have enjoyed so enviable a reputation in theirown day as Henry Sigerist. Born in Paris, raised in Zurich,and educated at Leipzig, Sigerist studied under the great medicalhistorian Karl Sudhoff, whom he succeeded as director of theInstitute for the History of Medicine, then the leading centerof medical–historical research in Europe, at only 34 yearsof age. In 1932 Sigerist was invited to become director of thenewly founded Institute for the History of Medicine at JohnsHopkins, where he remained until 1947. Determined to make Hopkinsa national center of medical history and to . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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