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By Robert J. Haggerty and Frederick H. Lovejoy, Jr. 453 pp., illustrated. Boston, Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 2007. (Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.) $35. ISBN 978-0-674-02380-2.

In the middle third of the 20th century, there were two important changes in medicine in the United States: the introduction of new science-based therapies (including antibiotics, chemotherapy, transplantation, and hormones) and the internationalization of American medicine. The scientific advances cured rather than merely palliated, and as a result, the world wanted these products. Charles A. Janeway, who was the Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School and the head of the department of pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston for 28 years, was centrally involved in both changes.

This biography, written by two of Janeway's students . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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