Blood and Guts

A Short History of Medicine

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Roy Porter

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Blood and Guts explores the many ingenious, curious and often gruesome ways in which humankind has fought disease over the ages- from Ayurvedic remedies to antibiotics, from blood-letting to X-rays, from crude amputations to organ transplants. With an extraordinary cast of barber surgeons, quacks, apothecaries, witch-doctors and anatomists, this is an eye-opening, humorous and often terrifying look at our ongoing quest for immortality.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

June 26th, 2003

Author

Roy Porter

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

224

Dimensions

129x198x16

ISBN-13

9780141010649

Product ID

1651548

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