Taking Medicine to the People

Taking Medicine to the People The Scalpel, the Sword (The Story of Dr Norman Bethune), by Ted Allen and Sydney Gordon; Monthly Review Press; London; pp 320; 33. (Agents in India, Oxford University Press.) THE Scalpel, the Sword", which recounts the life and work of Norman Bethune, was first published in 1952. Since then, it has had a sale of a million copies and has been translated into 19 languages. The edition under review was reprinted in 1973. The current edition may be particularly relevant to us