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By Guenter B. Risse. 716 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-505523-3.

Since the publication of his award-winning Hospital Life in Enlightenment Scotland (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), Guenter Risse has been recognized as a leading historian of hospitals. Mending Bodies, Saving Souls is a worthy successor to Risse's earlier study. It is a well-researched work of amazing breadth. And it asks all the right questions.

"The generic hospital," writes Risse, "is an abstraction. In reality, there are only particular hospitals, each with its unique name, patrons and mission, buildings, staff, and patients." Risse describes his approach as "episodic, a series of portraits" of particular hospitals (or, in some cases, prehospitals), . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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