| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Book Review

Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain: A Biological, Epidemiological, and Medical History. By Peter C. English. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xxii, 257 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8135-2710-4.)

Peter C. English, a distinguished pediatrician and the Josiah Charles Trent Professor of the History of Medicine at Duke University, has written an excellent history of rheumatic fever during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States and Great Britain. This is a particularly formidable task, not only because of the specialized scholarship required to sift through and interpret mountains of medical, bacteriological, epidemiological, and clinical studies of the topic but, even more frustrating, because the disease itself has changed much in terms of prevalence and virulence over this time, making his subject a biological moving target. . . .

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