The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)

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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A panoramic and perfectly magnificent intellectual history of medicine?This is the book that delivers it all. Sherwin Nuland, author of How We DieHailed as a remarkable achievement (Boston Globe) and as a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thoughtprovoking?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 huntergatherers to the more recent threats of AIDS and Ebola, from the clearly defined conviction of the Hippocratic oath to the muddy ethical dilemmas of modernday medicine. Offering up a treasure trove of historical surprises along the way, this book has instantly become the standard singlevolume work in its field (The Lancet). 24 pages of b/w illustrations

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