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1st Ed.1999 GREATEST BENEFIT TO MANKIND (Paperback)
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Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of its religious, scientific, philosophical, and political implications, and shows how our need to understand where diseases come from and what we can do to control them has inspired medical developments through the ages. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
Size
Length:
831 pages
Height:
12.3 in.
Width:
6.3 in.
Thickness:
1.2 in.
Weight:
33.6 oz.
Publisher's Note
Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords readers the opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to humankind. "A splendid and thoroughly engrossing book."--"L.A. Times." of illustrations.
Industry reviews
"Roy Porter is a phenomenon....a splendidly and thoroughly engrossing book." Los Angeles Times Book Review - Andrew Scull (04/12/1998)
"Written with storytelling flair and erudition, this study will be of interest to laypersons and professionals alike." O'Leary
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