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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 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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"For insatiable appetites, Porter wrote "The Greatest Benefit to Mankind. For the rest of us, there's this little gem."

A short, brilliant survey of medicine-its blood and guts-from antiquity to today. -- Deborah Love

In reading Blood and Guts, and then going back to The Greatest History of Mankind, I realize that these two books together introduce a novel perspective on the uses of history, one that is as uniquely contemporary as it is essential. --Sherwin B. Nuland

For insatiable appetites, Porter wrote The Greatest Benefit to Mankind. For the rest of us, there's this little gem. --Bill Eichenberger

In reading "Blood and Guts", and then going back to "The Greatest History of Mankind", I realize that these two books together introduce a novel perspective on the uses of history, one that is as uniquely contemporary as it is essential. --Sherwin B. Nuland"

In reading "Blood and Guts," and then going back to "The Greatest History of Mankind," I realize that these two books together introduce a novel perspective on the uses of history, one that is as uniquely contemporary as it is essential. --Sherwin B. Nuland"

For insatiable appetites, Porter wrote "The Greatest Benefit to Mankind." For the rest of us, there's this little gem. --Bill Eichenberger"

A delightful and informative introduction to an important subject by one of the outstanding scholars of his generation.--Gerald N. Grob, Ph.D.

A short, brilliant survey of medicine its blood and guts from antiquity to today.--Deborah Love"

An informative introduction to an important subject by one of the outstanding scholars of his generation.
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Mankind's battle to stay alive and healthy for as long as possible is our oldest, most universal and formidable struggle. This witty and often shocking book explores the ingenious ways in which we have fought disease over the ages in our quest for immortality. Roy Porter examines the changing role of doctors, from ancient healers, apothecaries and blood-letters to today's professionals; looks at the drugs we have used, from Ayurvedic remedies to the launch of Viagra in 1998; follows the huge advances in surgery, from amputations performed by barbers without anaesthetic to today's sophisticated transplants; and shows how hospitals have been transformed from Christian places of convalescence to modern medical powerhouses. Porter concludes that, while many people lead longer and healthier lives in the 21st century, our worries about illness and our mistrust of medics seem to be greater than ever.

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