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Book Title
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity-R
ISBN
9780006374541
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: a Medical History of Humanity
Item Height
234 mm
Author
Roy Porter
Publisher
HarperCollins
Subject
Medicine
Item Weight
950 g
Item Width
153 mm
Number of Pages
848 Pages

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'Yet another compulsively readable, astonishingly encyclopaedic book from Roy Porter...his best to date: an epic, one-volume narrative history of man's struggle with the infirmities of his body, from Aesculapius to AIDS.' SIMON SCHAMA 'Whether you are interested in the advent of the stethoscope, the history of yellow fever, the bubonic plague or, closer to home, coronary heart disease, the feminist influence on medicine, drug abuse, childbearing or cancer, this book provides the historic background to these and other medical questions... The Greatest Benefit to Mankind is a first-class introduction to medical history. Like a well constructed broadsheet leader, it excites thought and discussion, as well as providing many answers.' THOMAS STUTTAFORD, The Times Medicine advances ever faster, and with it a capacity not just to overcome sickness, but to transform the very nature of life. Starting in antiquity, Roy Porter's titanic history examines the traditions of both East and West to chart how this revolution came about and how life for human beings in some parts of the world has ceased to be 'nasty, brutish and short'. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind becomes from the moment of publication the standard work on its subject. It is also a magnificent entertainment and a delight to read.

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848 Pages
Publication Name
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: a Medical History of Humanity
Language
English
Subject
Medicine
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Author
Roy Porter
Format
Paperback

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234 mm
Item Weight
950 g
Item Width
153 mm

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United Kingdom
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Roy Porter

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    Porter's book is one of the cornerstones of the history of medicine. It is a massive work of life to dissect this enormous whale that medicine is. However, Porter does not paint a straightforward march of victory, on the contrary, he makes the reader very aware of the throwbacks and dark side of the intersections of diseases, colonization, class division and health. As it was published in 1998 he could not account for pluripotent stem cell research, chimeras and hybrids, animal-human transplants that will reshape the way we think about ourselves as humans but the seeds were there and given the delineated history of medical misconduct, we are facing heavy fights for our health. Very rich and very heavy. Recommended.

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