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Porter, Roy

 
9780393037623: Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
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ISBN 10 : 0393037622 ISBN 13 : 9780393037623
Editeur : W W Norton & Co Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Book by Porter Roy

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
W W Norton & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393037622
ISBN 13 
9780393037623
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
199
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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