Blood and Guts

Blood and Guts
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9780141932330
ISBN-13 : 0141932333
Rating : 4/5 (333 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Blood and Guts by : Roy Porter

Download or read book Blood and Guts written by Roy Porter and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-06-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 presentfor 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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