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Greatest Benefit to Mankind A Medical History of Humanity

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ISBN-10: 0393319806

ISBN-13: 9780393319804

Edition: 1997

Authors: Roy A. Porter

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Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 872
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.332

List of Figures
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Roots of Medicine
Antiquity
Medicine and Faith
The Medieval West
Indian Medicine
Chinese Medicine
Renaissance
The New Science
Enlightenment
Scientific Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
Nineteenth-Century Medical Care
Public Medicine
From Pasteur to Penicillin
Tropical Medicine, World Diseases
Psychiatry
Medical Research
Clinical Science
Surgery
Medicine, State and Society
Medicine and the People
The Past, the Present and the Future
Further Reading
Index