Description: In a new introduction to this paperback edition, Miller describes the growing scholarship on this subject in recent years.
Brief description: Timothy S. Miller is associate professor of history at Salisbury State University in Salisbury, Maryland.
Review Quotes: A very important book that will be consulted by students and scholars in diverse aspects of medicine . . . Guaranteed to excite controversy . . . [and] engender a long overdue interest in the medical procedures of one of the great world civilizations.
--Isis