| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Stanley Finger. Doctor Franklin's Medicine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 379. $39.95.
The University of Pennsylvania Press has honored the tricentenary of that paragon of North American institution building, Benjamin Franklin, with a volume dedicated to his place in eighteenth-century medicine as contributor, observer, and patient. The author, Stanley Finger, is a historian and former practitioner of the neurosciences and a longstanding admirer of Franklin. His summary of Franklin's contributions under the label "enlightened medicine" does not attempt a full and critical account of this medicine, which would be a welcome if large and thorny task to undertake for the North American colonies. Rather, this is a very full account of how one ubiquitous Founding Father interacted with and observed the practice and theory of eighteenth-century medicine in North America and in the countries he singled out for attention or graced with his presence (mainly England, Scotland, and France, but also Germany).	1
Finger bases this account on Franklin's own, apparently inexhaustible papers—both autobiographical writings and correspondence. His secondary sources do not go much beyond the general literature on colonial North American medicine, much of it written before the 1980s; many of these works are now classics that with few exceptions remain unchallenged by younger scholars. Thus, Finger's approach remains largely untouched by the complex social and cultural models used more recently and abundantly in European histories of medicine and health.	. . .

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