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Medicine advances ever faster, and with it not just a capacity to overcome sickness, but to transform the very nature of life. Starting in ancient antiquity, this text charts how this health revolution came about and how life for human beings in the West has ceased to be "nasty, brutish and short".
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Roy Porter
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- Released
- 1997
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Roy Porter
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 700
- ISBN10
- 0002151731
- ISBN13
- 9780002151733
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, Health & Medicine, Medicine, Science, Health, Medicine, Healthcare, Medical Studies, History of Medicine
- First published
- 1997
- Original title
- The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History from Antiquity to the Present
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- Medicine advances ever faster, and with it not just a capacity to overcome sickness, but to transform the very nature of life. Starting in ancient antiquity, this text charts how this health revolution came about and how life for human beings in the West has ceased to be "nasty, brutish and short".