Paperback • 1999 • English

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity

Name: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
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By Roy Porter

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Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Sunday Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking . . . a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times), Roy Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to mankind. Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and po...Show more

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9780393319804

Publisher

W. W. Norton Company

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity

Format

Paperback

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