Blood and Guts

A Short History of Medicine

Roy Porter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2003
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-101064-9 (ISBN)

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Discusses about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. This book features various chapters that sum up one of these battlefields such as surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body. It is suitable for those who are keenly aware of their own mortality and wants to do something about it.

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 presentfor 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.

Roy Porter was until his retirement Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. He last book ENLIGHTENMENT won a 2001 Wolfson Prize. Roy Porter died March 3rd 2002.

Disease; doctors; the body; the laboratory; therapies; surgery; the hospital; medicine in modern society.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.6.2003
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	197 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-14-101064-9 / 0141010649
ISBN-13	978-0-14-101064-9 / 9780141010649
Zustand	Neuware