Book Reviews an absorbing, candid and well-written account of his life in Germany under the Wilhehnian Empire, the Weimar Republic, National Socialism, and now the Federal Republic of Germany.As a social document dealing with middle-class life and politics in twentieth-century Germany this book is especially important.It likewise provides a revealing account of German medicine in peace-time and during war, especially on the Russian front in World War II.Above all it displays the moral and physical courage, the character, the vision and the humanity of a forceful yet benevolent and unselfish doctor.When criticisms are made of the so-called "vivisection" of animals by scientists in their experiments, men like Forssmann, and there are many of them, should be recalled; how they inflicted pain, discomfort and potential hazards upon themselves,
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Cannon‐Brookes et al. (1977) studied this question.