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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine Paperback - 2004
by Porter, Roy
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With his characteristic wit and vastly informed historical scope, Porter examines the war fought between disease and doctors on the battleground of the flesh from ancient times to the present.
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- Title Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
- Author Porter, Roy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date June 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0393325695-11-1
- ISBN 9780393325690 / 0393325695
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.6 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Medicine - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 610.9
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Summary
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.
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The war between disease and doctors fought out on the battle-ground of the flesh has a beginning and a middle but no end.
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- Kliatt, 11/01/2004, Page 40