The emergence of modern cardiology (Medical History, Suplement no. 5)
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Frankland, Sims Woodhead, and Edward Klein. Not surprisingly, the attempt to reduce the Victorian ideological maze to order results in omissions: the moral dimension, considered elsewhere by Christopher Hamlin, is lacking; as also is reference to the wider scientific context. Neither Justus von Liebig nor Robert Koch, both influential figures in this context, receives a mention. Part Two, which deals with the main diseases transmitted by the Thames is, says the blurb, "highly original", but, inevitably, much here is predictable; and Luckin's conclusions often simply reinforce points already made by Margaret Pelling in Cholera, fever and English medicine. The chapter on diarrhoea does not reduce confusion about the identity of the disease (was it a disease rather than a symptom?), its causation, and path of transmission, which is very far from being exclusively water-related. The third section of the book is the most novel, containing an account of the Thames Conservancy, which Luckin reveals as a wonderfully exclusive and self-sufficient body, and an analysis of why national legislation failed to control river pollution in the nineteenth century. Despite this book's weaknesses, it should provide a valuable stimulus to debate. Bill Luckin has not been well served by his publisher, however. The index is so perfunctory as to be virtually useless; the print is grey; the lines are too long and too close together; thejacket design is hideous. Anne Hardy Nuffield College, Oxford
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 31 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1987