Product Description: Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health workers became comrades who joined forces with people struggling for social justice, equity, and the right to health...read more

Product Description: In the first half of this century, Henry Ernest Sigerist was widely regarded as the world's leading historian of medicine. A brilliant teacher and lecturer, Sigerist made medical history exciting and relevant for a whole generation of young physicians, medical students, historians, and the general public...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a monograph on the work of the practicing Dutch architect, G. Rietveld. He began his career as a cabinetmaker in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and later expanded his activities to include architecture. Largely self-taught, he developed his work from the small scale of tables and chairs to large buildings and groups of buildings...read more