Wages of Sickness

Beatrix Hoffman, The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xiii + 261 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8078-2588-3; $17.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8078-4902-2.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Melissa A. Thomasson, Department of Economics, Miami University.
Published by EH.NET, July 2001.

London Socialist Historians Group

The Summer 2001 issue of the London socialist Historians Newsletter is now available to be downloaded from the LSHG web site www.ch.u-net.com/lshg.

This issue contains an article by Michael Cox on the intellectual relationship between E.H. Carr and Isaac Deutscher, and a review by Ian Birchall on Pamela Pilbeam's French Socialists before Marx. It also contains, as usual, news reports, together with details of forthcoming seminars and other events of interest to socialist historians in the London area and beyond.