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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity

Porter, Roy

Paperback

Series: Norton History of Science, Book 0

Medical ReferenceSports GeneralGeneral Parenting

ISBN10: 0393319806
ISBN13: 9780393319804
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Oct 1 1999
Pages: 872
Weight: 2.30
Height: 1.24 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
Awards: L.A. Times Book Prize

Hailed as a remarkable achievement (Boston 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 political beliefs of the culture in which it develops, covering ground from the diseases of the hunter-gatherers to the more recent threats of AIDS and Ebola, from the clearly defined conviction of the Hippocratic oath to the muddy ethical dilemmas of modern-day medicine. Offering up a treasure trove of historical surprises along the way, this book has instantly become the standard single-volume work in its field (The Lancet).

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