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By Carole Joffe. 250 pp. Boston, Beacon Press, 1995. $24. ISBN 0-8070-2100-8.

The history and heritage of medicine are inadequately integrated into the education of physicians and are rarely incorporated into the body of knowledge held by medical practitioners and scholars. But the past establishes the context for the present. Students and practitioners who are not familiar with the past lack the tools with which to analyze the present and make meaningful decisions.

Doctors of Conscience by Carole Joffe is a history of abortion in the years before legalization by the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. More than a neutral account, this is the work of an activist who seeks to "assure . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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