The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity / Roy Porter
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton, 1998, c1997
Edition
1st American ed
Descript
xvi, 831 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Roots of medicine -- Antiquity -- Medicine and faith -- Medieval west -- Indian medicine -- Chinese medicine -- Renaissance -- New science -- Enlightenment -- Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century -- Nineteenth-century medical care -- Public medicine -- From Pasteur to Penicillin -- Tropical medicine, world diseases -- Psychiatry -- Medical research -- Clinical science -- Surgery -- Medicine, state and society -- Medicine and the people -- Past, the present and the future