Great Feuds in Medicine: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever

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Bernard Knight, emeritus professor of forensic pathology

University of Wales College of Medicine

Hal Hellman

John Wiley and Sons, £17.95, pp 237

ISBN 0 471 34757 4

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Progress in science and medicine is often accompanied by controversy, especially over claims to priority in publication, but some researchers seem to have had an antipathy born of pure professional jealousy. Hal Hellman has picked 10 from a large field, covering a timespan from William Harvey in the 17th century, right up to Gallo and Montagnier's dispute over HIV at the end of the 20th.

Perhaps few realise that Harvey's classic treatise on the circulation of the blood was banned by the censors in Britain and had …