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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
Blood and Guts A Short History of Medicine
Author: Roy Porter
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, labo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780141010649
ISBN-10: 0141010649
Publication Date: 6/26/2003
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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"With his characteristic wit and vastly informed historical scope, Roy 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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