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Previous Volume 357:1166 September 13, 2007 Number 11

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Edited by W.F. Bynum and Helen Bynum. 1415 pp., in 5 volumes, illustrated. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 2007. $749.95. ISBN 978-0-313-32877-0.

Although the study of medical history is no longer focused on the lives of prominent physicians, biography remains integral to the field. The extensive and thoughtfully conceived Dictionary of Medical Biography is therefore valuable. Its five volumes offer much to those who are interested professionally or avocationally in the development of the fields of clinical medicine, medical science, and public health.

The book's 1415 pages contain 1140 entries, so reviewing the entire work is not feasible, and such an approach would not reflect how such works are used. I therefore began my assessment by thinking of figures in medical history . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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