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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind a Medical History of Humanity

by Roy Porter

ISBN: 9780393319804
ISBN10: 0393319806

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind a Medical History of Humanity

by Roy Porter

Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publish date: 10/01/1999
ISBN: 9780393319804
ISBN10: 0393319806

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Description: Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords readers the opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to humankind. "A splendid and thoroughly engrossing book."--"L.A. Times." of illustrations.

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