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Blood and Guts - A Short History of Medicine

Paperback • 2003 • English

Blood and Guts - A Short History of Medicine

By Roy Porter

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About the book

Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. Each chapter sums up one of these battlefields (surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body) in a way that is both frightening and elating. Startlingly illustrated, A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDICINE is the ideal presentfor ...Show more

Medicine and Nursing
Medicine: general issues
History of medicine

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ISBN

9780141010649

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

Blood and Guts - A Short History of Medicine

Format

Paperback

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