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Fifteen articles discuss Sigerist's influence on the history of medicine, medical sociology, and health policy and illuminate why, thirty-five years after his death, he continues to be revered by many public health professionals and medical historians. In the first half of the century, Sigerist was widely regarded as the world's leading historian of medicine. He was also a Marxist sympathizer and advocate of socialized medicine, and he had enormous and controversial influence on the medical politics of his time.--'SciTech Book News'

Elizabeth Fee is chief of the History of Medicine Division at the National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, and adjunct professor of history and health policy at the Johns Hopkins University. Her many books include 'Disease and Discovery: A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916-1939,' available from Johns Hopkins. Theodore M. Brown is professor of history at the University of Rochester, where he also teaches in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine and the Division of Medical Humanities.