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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind : A Medical History of Humanity

by Roy Porter
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  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (1998)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1998)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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by Roy Porter
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ISBN: 9780006374541
Authors: Roy Porter
Publisher: Fontana Press
Date of Publication: 1999-02-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, History
Related Topics: Medicine, Health, Medical, Biology, World History
Goodreads rating: 4.03
(rated by 802 readers)

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Paperback. Pub Date :1999-02-01 848 English HarperCollins UK A definitive study of the history of medicine. from the earliest humans to the present day.Medicine is advancing at an incredible rate We now have the. ability to overcome sickness but also to transform the nature of life in many parts of the world. human existence has simply ceased to be nasty. brutish and short In this titanic history of medicine and disease. Roy Porter examines the traditions of East. and West to chart how this revolution has come about.Covering medical milestones big and small - from dissection to surgery and from anaesthesia to AIDS - Roy Porters masterpiece is both a superlative history of medicine and a sweeping survey of human life and death.
 
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (1998)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1998)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.