Dialogue
Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine
by John Harley Warner, Ph.D., professor of history of medicine and American studies, Princeton University Press (N.J.)...
Antoine Lavoisier: The Next Crucial Year or, the Sources of His Quantitative Method in Chemistry
by Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Ph.D., Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine, Princeton University Press (N.J.) 1998.
Biochemistry and Disease: Bridging Basic Science and Clinical Practice
by Robert M. Cohn, M.D. '65 and Karl S. Roth, M.D., Williams & Wilkins (Baltimore, Md.) 1996.
Captain of Death: The Story of Tuberculosis
by Thomas M. Daniel, M.D., B.S. '51, University of Rochester Press (N.Y.) 1997.
Rule of law, not men
To the Editor: As a graduate of Yale College but not the medical school, I was pleased to begin receiving Yale...

To tell the truth
To the Editor: I came across your very nice article on the history of radiology at Yale [Medicine's new eyes,...

You're both right
To the Editor: Because of my mixed medical heritage (B.M.S. Dartmouth Medical School, M.D. Harvard Medical School, and...
Class agent syndrome
To the Editor: A syndrome described in the December 1997 Atlantic Monthly attracted my gaze. Now I know what causes my...


