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Thomas Hodgkin: Morbid Anatomist, Social Activist.(Brief Article)
THOMAS HODGKIN:
Morbid Anatomist, Social Activist Louis Rosenfeld. Madison, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-8191-8633-3
Hodgkin's (1798-1866) fame as the discoverer of the disease that bears his name has obscured the English Quaker physician's accomplishments as a scholar, educator, ethnologist and social reformer--particularly as the "father and founder of the Aborigines' Protection Society," which worked to end exported abuses of native peoples around the British Empire. With unobtrusive erudition, Rosenfeld, associate professor of pathology at New York University, vividly …
