Description
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 present for 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.
Information
Author: Porter Roy
Publication date: June 26, 2003
Manufacturer: The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, History books in english, Non-fiction literature in english
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN/EAN: 9780141010649