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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.
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Science, Medical, Nonfiction, Medicine, Popular works, History, Medicine, history, Medizin, Medicine--history, Medicine--history--popular works, Médecine--histoire--ouvrages de vulgarisation, Geneeskunde, Medicina--historia, Medicina--historia--obras de divulgación, History of medicine, Medicinepopular workshistory, Medicinehistory, Geschichte, R131 .p587 2003, Wz 40 p847b 2003, 610/.9, 44.01, Xb 2300, 15.08, 7,25, AngShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
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"The war between disease and doctors fought out on the battle-ground of the flesh has a beginning and a middle but no end."
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