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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present »
Authors: Roy Porter
ISBN-13: 9780393319804, ISBN-10: 0393319806
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: October 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Roy Porter
The late Roy Porter was professor of the history of medicine at University College, London. His books include The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
Book Synopsis
"To combine enormous knowledge with a delightful style and a highly idiosyncratic point of view is Roy Porter's special gift, and it makes [this] book . . . alive and fascinating and provocative on every page."—Oliver Sacks, M.D.
LA Times
Porter's latest book demonstrates anew his daring and his erudition....A t riumph, simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking....Splendid and thoroughly engrossing.
Table of Contents
| List of Figures | ||
| List of Illustrations | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| I | Introduction | 3 |
| II | The Roots of Medicine | 14 |
| III | Antiquity | 44 |
| IV | Medicine and Faith | 83 |
| V | The Medieval West | 106 |
| VI | Indian Medicine | 135 |
| VII | Chinese Medicine | 147 |
| VIII | Renaissance | 163 |
| IX | The New Science | 201 |
| X | Enlightenment | 245 |
| XI | Scientific Medicine in the Nineteenth Century | 304 |
| XII | Nineteenth-Century Medical Care | 348 |
| XIII | Public Medicine | 397 |
| XIV | From Pasteur to Penicillin | 428 |
| XV | Tropical Medicine, World Diseases | 462 |
| XVI | Psychiatry | 493 |
| XVII | Medical Research | 525 |
| XVIII | Clinical Science | 561 |
| XIX | Surgery | 597 |
| XX | Medicine, State and Society | 628 |
| XXI | Medicine and the People | 668 |
| XXII | The Past, the Present and the Future | 710 |
| Further Reading | 719 | |
| Index | 765 |
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