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Edited by Glenn Sonnedecker, David L. Cowen, and Gregory J. Higby. 154 pp., illustrated. Madison, Wis., American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 2002. $15. ISBN 0-931292-38-7.

Historical events can be described "from above" or "from the ground." Historians, from their lofty academic perspective, write analyses and overviews that are supported by erudition and scholarly references. The man on the street, on the other hand, sees events from a different point of view — that is, from the ground — and his description of them, even if it lacks breadth, gives the reader the benefit of the immediacy and charm of the human touch.

This book is a view from the ground of health care in the United States in the period between 1824 and 1933. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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