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The greatest benefit to mankind

a medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present

by Roy Sydney Porter

1997 831 pages eng

"Roy Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of the culture in which it develops, and he shows how our need to understand where diseases come from and what we can do to control them has - perhaps above all els…

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