Blood and Guts
A Short History of Medicine
by Roy Sydney Porter
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Chronicles the history of medicine, including the role of doctors, various attempts at controlling disease, and the progress of hospitals.
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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
June 2004, W. W. Norton & Company
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Blood and Guts: a Short History of Medicine
2002, Penguin Publishing Group
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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
2002, Penguin Books, Limited
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2002, Penguin Publishing Group
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"And I looked, and behold a pale horse and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."
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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 present for 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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