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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present

Paperback • 1999 • English

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present

By Roy Porter

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Medicine advances ever faster, and with it not just a capacity to overcome sickness, but to transform the very nature of life. Starting in ancient times, this text charts how this health revolution came about and how life for human beings in the West has ceased, in Hobbes' memorable phrase, to be nasty, brutish and short. Porter plots the growth of medical specialisms - pharmacology, physiology, anatomy, neurology, bacteriology - and the institutions of medicine - the hospital and asylum - to sh...Show more

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9780006374541

Publisher

Fontana Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present

Format

Paperback

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