The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity / Roy Porter.
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
1997
R131 .P59 1997 (Mapit)
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Title The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity / Roy Porter.
Author Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
ISBN 0393046346
Publication Details New York : W. W. Norton, c1997.
Language English
Description xvi, 831 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number R131 .P59 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 610/.9
Note British ed. published with subtitle: A medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 719-764) and index.
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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.

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