L'Économie humaine par la médecine sociale

Abstract

IT would be difficult to over-praise this book, which ought to be promptly translated into the chief European languages. Nothing similar has yet been attempted, although, when done, one wonders why it has been left to Dr. Rene Sand. The reason no doubt is that he is a Frenchman, with the French gift for clear arrangement and for making the abstract attractive. Within three hundred pages one has a perfect conspectus of what science, especially medical science, has done to raise the general health, and promote social welfare, within the last few decades. Though the general conclusions are amazingly encouraging, there is no attempt to gloss over the black spots, which are described here and there with a poignant pen.

L'Économie humaine par la médecine sociale.

Par René Sand. Pp. vii + 305. (Paris: Les Éditions Rieder, 1934.) 30 francs.