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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind
By
Roy Porter
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Fontana Press
Binding
Paperback
ISBN-13
9780006374541
ISBN-10
0006374549
Dimensions
2.20 by 6 by 9.21 in.
Weight
2.09 lbs.
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Summary
Medicine advances ever faster, and with it not just a capacity to overcome sickness, but to transform the very nature of life. Starting in ancient times, this text charts how this health revolution came about and how life for human beings in the West has ceased to be 'nasty, brutish and short'.
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