Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine

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Mankind’s battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain’s greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. Each chapter sums up one of these battlefields (surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body) in a way that is both frightening and elating. Startlingly illustrated, A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDICINE is the ideal presentfor anyone who is keenly aware of their own mortality and wants to do something about it. It is also a wonderful memorial to one of Penguin’s greatest historians.

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Weight 0.197 kg
Dimensions 1.6 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
Language

Pages

224
Publisher

Year Published

2003-6-26
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0141010649
About The Author

Roy Porter was until his retirement Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. He last book ENLIGHTENMENT won a 2001 Wolfson Prize. Roy Porter died March 3rd 2002.

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