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The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity

Set to become the standard work on the history of medicine, this book is also a treasure trove of historical surprises. Roy Porter shows how lemons did as much as Nelson to defeat Napoleon and how African slaves became immune to malaria.

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  • "Greatest benefit to Mankind"
  • "Dějiny medicíny od starověku po současnost"

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  • "Set to become the standard work on the history of medicine, this book is also a treasure trove of historical surprises. Roy Porter shows how lemons did as much as Nelson to defeat Napoleon and how African slaves became immune to malaria."@en
  • "Samuel Johnson once called the medical profession "the greatest benefit to mankind." In the 20th century, the quality of that benefit has improved more and more rapidly than at any other comparable time in history. With all the capabilities of modern medicine's practicioners, however, we as a people are as worried about our health as ever. Roy Porter, a social historian of medicine the London's Wellcome Institute, has written an dauntingly thick history of how medical thinking and practice has risen to the challenges of disease through the centuries. But delve into its pages, and you'll find one marvelous bit of history after another. The obvious highlights are touched upon--Hippocrates introduces his oath, Pasteur homogenizes, Jonas Salk produces the polio vaccine, and so on--but there's also Dr. Francis Willis's curing of The Madness of King George, W.T.G. Morton's hucksterish use of ether in surgery, and research on digestion conducted using a man with a stomach fistula (if you don't know what that means, you may not want to know). Porter is straightforward about his deliberate focus on Western medical traditions, citing their predominant influence on global medicine, and he has produced a volume worthy of that tradition's legacy."@en

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  • "Student Collection"
  • "Monographs"
  • "Monografie"
  • "History"
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  • "Geschiedenis (vorm)"

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  • "The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity"@en
  • "The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity"
  • "The greatest benefit to mankind : A medical history of humanity from Antiquity to the present"
  • "Medicinens historie : fra oldtid til nutid"@da
  • "The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity from antiquity to present"
  • "The greatest benefit to mankind : A medical history of humanity from antiquity to present"
  • "Die Kunst des Heilens : Eine medizinische Geschichte der Menschheit von der Antike bis heute"
  • "The Greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity"
  • "Největší dobrodiní lidstva : historie medicíny od starověku po současnost"
  • "The greatest benefit to mankind a medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present"
  • "The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity from Antiquity to the present"
  • "The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity from Antiquity to the present"@en
  • "Dějiny medicíny : od starověku po současnost"
  • "The greatest benefit to mankind"
  • "The greatest benefit to mankind"@en
  • "Die Kunst des Heilens : eine medizinische Geschichte der Menschheit von der Antike bis heute"
  • "The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present"@en
  • "The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present"

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