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Doctors east, doctors west
Book Review
T
layman. Job;”
HE Norton Medical Award is given annually to encourage the writing
unused
inn
and
so
division
of
the
tremendously
of books on medical
Hunan-Yale
Last year’s winner, by Carl
able effort
Binger,
which
topics for the “The
Doctor’s
was a particularly
did much
to further
began
educational
the
medical successful
project.
How
won the confidence
of the population
built his dispensary
into a modern
he and
medical
center’ comprising a four hundred bed hospital, nursing and medical schools is well
the
patient’s understanding of the complexities of modern practice. This year, a very different subject has been
and modestly told. But perhaps of more interest
to the aver-
selected. “Doctors East, Doctors West”* relates the experiences, impressions and ac-
age reader will be the picture of the Chinese people presented. The author knows the
complishments
rank and file as well as the upper strata of Chinese society and has witnessed its evolu-
of an American
physician
China during the first quarter century.
Apparently
the footsteps Dr. Hume
destined
of his father
and grandfather,
city
to foreigners
were suspicious.
of Changsha
Dr.
impression that the average Chinese, like the average American, is a fairly stable citizen, a heartening conclusion perhaps in
when
the call to China came. Hunan province the people
tion from the days of the dynasty to the era of Chiang Kai-Shek. One is left with the
to follow in
had begun work in India
just been opened
in
of the present
had
in 1905 and
these unsettled times. The book is pleasantly written and contains several photographs. It would provide an interesting and instructive evening for
In the capital
Hume
selected
an
*DOCTOFS EAST, DOCTORS WEST. By Edward H. Hume, M.D. Cloth. Pp. 278, with frontispiece and 21 illustrations. New York, 1946. W. W. Norton and Company. Price $3.00.
anyone concerned work in China.
212
with medical
AMERICAN
missionary F. K.
JOURNAL
H.
OF MEDICINE
T
layman. Job;”
HE Norton Medical Award is given annually to encourage the writing
unused
inn
and
so
division
of
the
tremendously
of books on medical
Hunan-Yale
Last year’s winner, by Carl
able effort
Binger,
which
topics for the “The
Doctor’s
was a particularly
did much
to further
began
educational
the
medical successful
project.
How
won the confidence
of the population
built his dispensary
into a modern
he and
medical
center’ comprising a four hundred bed hospital, nursing and medical schools is well
the
patient’s understanding of the complexities of modern practice. This year, a very different subject has been
and modestly told. But perhaps of more interest
to the aver-
selected. “Doctors East, Doctors West”* relates the experiences, impressions and ac-
age reader will be the picture of the Chinese people presented. The author knows the
complishments
rank and file as well as the upper strata of Chinese society and has witnessed its evolu-
of an American
physician
China during the first quarter century.
Apparently
the footsteps Dr. Hume
destined
of his father
and grandfather,
city
to foreigners
were suspicious.
of Changsha
Dr.
impression that the average Chinese, like the average American, is a fairly stable citizen, a heartening conclusion perhaps in
when
the call to China came. Hunan province the people
tion from the days of the dynasty to the era of Chiang Kai-Shek. One is left with the
to follow in
had begun work in India
just been opened
in
of the present
had
in 1905 and
these unsettled times. The book is pleasantly written and contains several photographs. It would provide an interesting and instructive evening for
In the capital
Hume
selected
an
*DOCTOFS EAST, DOCTORS WEST. By Edward H. Hume, M.D. Cloth. Pp. 278, with frontispiece and 21 illustrations. New York, 1946. W. W. Norton and Company. Price $3.00.
anyone concerned work in China.
212
with medical
AMERICAN
missionary F. K.
JOURNAL
H.
OF MEDICINE