John Duffy's classic history, formerly titled The Healers, hasbeen thoroughly revised and updated for this second edition, which includesnew chapters on women and minorities in medicine and on the challengescurrently facing the health care field."This remains the only comprehensive history of American medicine.The treatment of the emergence of modern medicine and the flowering ofsurgery is especially fresh and well done. As one of the respected scholarsin our profession, John Duffy has again demonstrated his wide knowledgeof the subject."-- Thomas N. Brunner, author of To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in Medicine
