Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 69-70. (Budapest, 1973)

SZEMLE KÖNYVEKRŐL - Bödy, P: Joseph Eötvös and the Modernization of Hungary, 1840—1870 (Antall, József)

hogy tényei „becses, habár nem mindig kimerítő s nem mindig az eredeti első forrásból merített felvilágosítások". Számolnunk kell azzal is, hogy Aschbach megállapításait az eltelt száz év kutatásai némileg megváltoztatták, kiegészítették és módosították — a könyv adatainak többsége azonban ma is pontos és helytálló ismereteket rögzít. T. Pajorin Klára Body, Paul: Joseph Eötvös and the Modernization of Hungary, 1840—1870. A Study of Ideas of Individuality and Social Pluralism in Modern Politics. Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, 1972, pp. 134. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. New Series, Vol. 62, Part 2)* The Hungarian-born Paul Body has already written several essays on the formation of the doctrines of liberalism, on the development of political thought in Europe in general and in Hungary in particular.

1 He has been studying the political philosophy of Eötvös for years, concentrating on the application of Eötvös's ideas in practical politics. The main achievement of the present study lies in this fact: one of the major political thinkers of the 19th century has been introduced to the English-reading public, thus filling a serious gap and compensating for the disadvantage the representative of any smaller or more isolated nation must inevitably suffer in his lifetime, and indeed in his evaluation by posterity. Body's essay is also therefore interesting from the point of view of medical history because it deals in a social political aspect with the same questions we have handled from a medical historical point of view too.

2 Furthermore the author has pursved a part of his research work in our Institute whereof he makes a mention in the preface; "I owe special thanks to Dr. József Antall, associated with the Semmelweis Museum and Library of Medical History in Budapest, for his epert guidance on source material relating to Eötvös and for his generous personal assistance during my stay in Hungary." József Eötvös (1813—1871) was a member of that great generation of Hungarians who in the successive periods of the Age of Reforms (1825—48), the revolution and war of independence (1848—49), the neoabsolutist era (1849— 67), the Compromise (1867) and in the "state-building" years following that

—in * Body Pál amerikai történész tanulmányáról jelen ismertetés magyar változata a Századok és az Irodalomtörténeti Közlemények hasábjain jelenik meg. 1 "Baron Joseph Eötvös and his Critique of Nationalism in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848 — 1854", The Historian, 1965. No. 1. "Lord Acton and the Idea of the Nation State", The University of Portland Review, 1965, pp. 5 — 11. 2 Antall, József: The emergence of the system of modern higher education in Hungary. Comm. Hist. Artis Med., Vol. 51-53 (1969) pp. 61-74.-: The birth of the Medical School of Pest and the health policy of the centralists. Comm. Hist. Artis Med. Vol. 57 — 59 (1971) pp. 173 — 185. — : Absolutism and liberalism in health policy in Hungary. Comm. Hist. Artis Med., Suppl. 4. (1970), pp. 147 — 156. — : State interference and the dilemma of liberalism in the field of medical training and public health. Comm. Hist. Artis Med., Suppl. 6. (1972), pp. 39—46.