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The history of the hospital is a genre that has recently blossomed. If used imaginatively, it permits access to the life of a major municipal institution, its administration, finance, and provisioning; to the health-care professions, the hospital ministry; to clinical teaching and research; and, of course, to patients, selected diseases, and their treatments. A revised dissertation that covers the [End Page 796] Hôpital Général of Geneva during the years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era thus leads us to expect a detailed analysis of a municipal institution during an epoch of dramatic upheaval and change. We are indeed offered a close look at hundreds of Genevans, both the dispensers and the recipients of health care--in a Protestant, theocratic Republic

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