Bargaining for Life

"Bates's book is an important contribution to the social history of disease…It will be essential for scholars in other areas of American social history as well." ~Journal of American History

"A rigorous, careful study of the medical and institutional history of the disease and organized efforts against it." ~Bulletin of the History of Medicine

"This important and engrossing book is a state-of-the-art example of mature social history of medicine." ~Science