In this fascinating book, scholarship and interpretive skill are equally wedded to produce a rarity: an intellectual tour de force that is a page turner! Pedantry is avoided since the book is harnessed from start to finish to a compelling investigative argument: to be a Jewish physician in fin de siècle Germany must have placed Jewish scientists in general, but Freud in particular, in a conflict that was not only sociopolitical and psychological in its dimensions, but medical as well. Fin de siècle German medicine with its accumulation