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Blood and Guts; A Short History of Medicine Hardcover - 2003
by Porter, Roy
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- Title Blood and Guts; A Short History of Medicine
- Author Porter, Roy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 199
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 093051
- ISBN 9780393037623 / 0393037622
- Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.46 x 5.38 x 0.82 in (21.49 x 13.67 x 2.08 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Medicine - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003042078
- 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.
First line
And I looked, and behold a pale horse and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
