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Edited by J. Willis Hurst, C. Richard Conti, and W. Bruce Fye. 514 pp., illustrated. Mahwah, N.J., Clinical Cardiology Publishing, 2003. $69.50. ISBN 0-615-12084-9.

In 1985, J. Willis Hurst suggested that a short biographical and historical profile of a major contributor to the understanding and treatment of heart disease be included in the monthly issues of the journal Clinical Cardiology, of which C. Richard Conti is the editor-in-chief. Profiles in Cardiology reprints more than 200 of these profiles in a chronological arrangement that covers more than half a millennium, from Antonio di Paolo Benivieni (1443–1502), an early proponent of clinical–pathological correlation by means of autopsy, to A. John Camm (1947–). Many of the profiles of early physicians were written by W. Bruce Fye, a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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