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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine

by Porter,Roy

ISBN13: 9780393325690
ISBN10: 0393325695
eBook ISBN(s): 9780393243345
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2004-06-17
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Summary

With his characteristic wit and vastly informed historical scope, Porter examines the war fought between disease and doctors on the battleground of the flesh from ancient times to the present.

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Preface	xvii
1 Disease	1	(20)
2 Doctors	21	(32)
3 The Body	53	(22)
4 The Laboratory	75	(24)
5 Therapies	99	(10)
6 Surgery	109	(26)
7 The Hospital	135	(18)
8 Medicine in Modern Society	153	(18)
Further Reading	171	(16)
Index	187

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