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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity Paperback - 1999 - 1st Edition
by Roy Porter
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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THESE ARE STRANGE TIMES, when we are healthier than ever but more anxious about our health.
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- Title The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
- Author Roy Porter
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 872
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date 1999-10-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780393319804 / 0393319806
- Weight 2.3 lbs (1.04 kg)
- Dimensions 9.22 x 6.16 x 1.24 in (23.42 x 15.65 x 3.15 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Medicine - History, Social medicine - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98010219
- Dewey Decimal Code 610.9
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- Ingram Advance, 10/01/1999, Page 178
- New York Times, 12/12/1999, Page 48
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