English literature is by no means rich in medical biographies and any worthy additions to the historical shelves of our libraries are very welcome indeed. These seventeen essays on distinguished doctors of the last century are important from an historical point of view, and they also form very good reading matter. The biographies are peculiarly satisfying, but it is hard to say what is the part...

this article draws attention to the ways in which anita amirrezvani’s the blood of flowers (2007), a historical novel set in 17th-century iran, can be placed within the neo-orientalist discourse which informs many of the post-9/11 memoirs and novels set in contemporary iran by women of the iranian diaspora in the united states. besides being a novel on islam and islamic rule—which makes it much...