Doctor Franklin’s Medicine Excerpt Available

In Doctor Franklin’s Medicine, Stanley Finger uncovers the instrumental role that Benjamin Franklin–scientist, inventor, publisher, and statesman–played in the development of the healing arts, giving preventive and bedside medicine, hospital care, and even personal hygiene a modern look that changed the face of medical care in both America and Europe.

An excerpt of Finger’s book appears in the Winter 2007 issue of Penn Medicine.