Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
by Porter, Roy
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0713996692
- ISBN 13
- 9780713996692
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- The Glass Key (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 103552
- Title
- Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
- Author
- Porter, Roy
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0713996692
- ISBN 13
- 9780713996692
- Publisher
- Allen Lane
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2002
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medicine;
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