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The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity from Antiquity to the present / Roy Porter.
Record no.:
1773
Author:
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.;
Publisher:
London :: FontanaPress,
Year:
1999.
Description:
xxi, 833 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Medicine - History.;
Social medicine - History.;
Notes:
Nagle Library copy ex dono Adrian Diethelm, Rector.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0006374549 (pbk.) :;
Abstract:
1. Introduction -- 2. The roots of medicine -- 3. Antiquity -- 4. Medicine and faith -- 5. The medieval west -- 6. Indian medicine -- 7. Chinese medicine -- 8. Renaissance -- 9. The new science -- 10. Enlightenment -- 11. Scientific medicine in the ninteenth
century -- 12. Nineteenth-century medical care -- 13. Public medicine -- 14. From Pasteur to penicillin -- 15. Tropical medicine, world diseases -- 16. Psychiatry -- 17. Medical research -- 18. Clinical science -- 19. Surgery -- 20. Medicine, state and society -- 21. Medicine and the people -- 22. The past, the present and the future.

This book is a study of the history of medicine, from the earliest humans to the present day.
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