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(Cambridge History of Medicine.) By Jack D. Pressman. 555 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. $49.95. ISBN 0-521-35371-8.

Last Resort is medical history at its best. No exercise in antiquarianism, it illuminates the meaning of a misguided therapeutic innovation so as to shed light on the dilemmas medicine continues to face in assessing therapeutic options. Pressman has conducted a close, careful, and thoroughly documented examination of original sources. Notes occupy 78 pages at the end of the book; they need not weigh down readers persuaded by the logic of the author's analysis, but they will be invaluable for the scholar who wants to review the evidence. This book is much more than an important contribution to medical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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