Review

. . .the Companion Encyclopedia is as importatnt a statement about medical historiography in our generation as it is about the history of medicine. Historians' methods and points of view change; the scholarship and value of this work will remain.

–Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, October 1994

...the nearly two thousand pages of the Encyclopedia provide useful...introductions to most subjects in the field. Together the essays constitute a synthesis of recent work in the discipline and an important work of reference.

–Journal of the History of Medicine, April 1995

It is both intelligent and discursive, and anyone with an interest in medicine past or present should have it on their shelves. - The Daily Telegraph

During the past decade there have been several efforts to create and encyclopedic history-of-medicine reference guide. All these works have had glaring weaknesses. Finally, Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine fulfills this goal by providing an outstanding survey of this specialty's historical breadth and diversity...The scope of topics covered in these two volumes is amazing...Every major reference collection should include these volumes in its holdings, as they represent the most valuable nonbibliographic history-of-medicine reference tool currently available.

–American Reference Books Annual, 1995

The diversity of subjects not ordinarily considered in books of this nature . . . make this not only a valuable and lively work of reference, but a book to be kept close at hand and read with pleasure as well as enlightenment.

–Nature, January 13, 1994

This landmark work will forever shape and define the interdisciplinary field of the history of medicine.

–Library Journal, October 15, 1993