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By Julie M. Fenster. 304 pp., illustrated. New York, Carroll & Graf, 2003. $25. ISBN 0-7867-1236-8.

At least since 1926, when Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters hit the best-seller lists, tales of medical discovery, detection, and invention have proved popular. Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine, written as a complement to the television miniseries of the same name, presented on the History Channel, is in this genre.

This book by Julie M. Fenster, a writer and historian, consists of 20 tales grouped loosely into five sections — "Understanding the Body," "Germ Theory," "Magic Bullets," "The Mind," and "Toward Better Surgery." The subjects included in these sections range chronologically from the work of Andreas Vesalius and William Harvey in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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