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by Christopher Lawrence (Rochester Studies in Medical History), 373 pp, with illus, $85, ISBN 1-58046-195-6, Rochester, NY, University of Rochester Press, 2005.

JAMA. 2006;296:2623-2624.

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The United States and the United Kingdom are, as Bernard Shaw is said to have put it, "Two nations divided by a common language." There is certainly a voluminous and fascinating literature on transatlantic mutual miscomprehension. Christopher Lawrence's new book may be regarded as, among much else, a welcome addition to this stock. Lawrence (who is professor at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh) reveals that medicine is as fertile a ground for Anglo-American misunderstanding as sport, politics, or pronunciation.

In the 1910s and 1920s, the Rockefeller Foundation, as part of its mission to "promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world," sought to improve the quality of medical education, first in the United States and then internationally. The officers of the foundation picked the medical school of the University of Edinburgh to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Malcolm Nicolson, PhD, Reviewer
Centre for the History of Medicine
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland
wellmn@arts.gla.ac.uk

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