The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity / Roy Porter.
By: Porter, Roy.
Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton, ©1999Description: 831 p: ill., [24] p. of plates ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393319804.Other title: Medical history of humanity.Subject(s): Medicine -- History | Social medicine -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | R131 .P59 1999 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000016783 |
British ed. published with subtitle: A medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 719-764) and index.
introduction -- Roots of medicine -- Antiquity -- Medicine and faith -- Medieval west -- Indian medicine -- Chinese medicine -- Renaissance -- New science -- Enlightenment -- Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century -- Nineteenth-century medical care -- Public medicine -- From Pasteur to penicillin -- Tropical medicine, world diseases -- Psychiatry -- Medical research -- Clinical science -- Surgery -- Medicine, state and society -- Medicine and the people -- Past, the present and the future.