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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine

Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine

Roy Porter

Discusses about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. This book features various chapters that sum up one of these battlefields such as surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body. It is suitable for those who are keenly aware of their own mortality and wants to do something about it.
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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.

Product Description

Title - Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine

Edition -

Author - Roy Porter

ISBN 13 - 9780141010649

Imprint - Penguin Books Ltd

Publisher - Penguin Books Ltd

Date Published - 26/06/2003

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No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 16mm

Weight - 211 g

Languages - English