The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity: 0 (Norton History of Science) - Softcover

Porter, Roy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393319806 ISBN 13: 9780393319804

Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1999

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Book by Porter Roy

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Reseña del editor:

Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Sunday 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 today's threat 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). "The author's perceptiveness is, as usual, scalpel-sharp; his manner genially bedside; his erudition invigorating." - Simon Schama

Biografía del autor:

Roy Porter is professor of the social history of medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Science.

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• Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0393319806
• ISBN 13: 9780393319804
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 831