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Previous Volume 341:1778 December 2, 1999 Number 23

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By Dorothy Porter. 376 pp. London, Routledge, 1999. $25.99. ISBN 0-415-20036-9.

The 1990s have seen an outpouring of exceptional literature about the history of public health. Survey books have provided outstanding coverage of the broad scope of the growth of public health, and numerous scholars have published fascinating biographies of key figures in this field or stories detailing the successes and failures of public health. Regrettably, Porter's new book, intended as a standard textbook for students of public health, fails to match either the scholarship or the readability of these other works.

Porter, who has edited several works that examine primarily British medical history, focuses her current book on the concept . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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