By Peter Vinten-Johansen, Howard Brody, Nigel Paneth, Stephen Rachman, and Michael Rip, with the assistance of David Zuck. 437 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2003. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-513544-X.
John Snow has long been revered, most notably by anesthetistsand public health workers, for the pioneering medical work hedid in the 19th century. But the majority of writings aboutSnow (who was my husband's great great uncle) have focused oneither anesthesia or public health. As a result, he has beenregarded perhaps as a somewhat quixotic figure, well known inparallel but unconnected fields. This book, however, providesa synthesis of Snow, a holistic account of a mid-19th-centurymedical doctor whose primary aim was to use the science of hisday to improve the medical understanding of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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