Book Review

摘要

Dr Edward Atwater, long a bulwark of the medical history community in the United States, has completed an almost lifelong labour of love AND produced one of the most readable, multifaceted and useful biographical reference tools to appear since Islamic scholars started the genre. The only thing shocking is that for the first time we have actual data on women physicians of the first generation. Most of the conclusions (found in the introduction) simply confirm the qualitative understandings provided by Regina Morantz-Sanchez ( : , Oxford University Press, 1985) and other excellent scholars of the subject; but still data are nice to have.