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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity

By Roy Porter
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By Roy Porter
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize


"A panoramic and perfectly magnificent intellectual history of medicine...This is the book that delivers it all." -Sherwin Nuland, author of How We Die

Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking...a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times), Roy Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before ...

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