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This splendidly imaginative work propels the debate forward...and makes a valuable point (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365987221727,"sku":"9780393322682","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/XSC-lFl8oL9780393322682.webp?v=1789077166"},{"product_id":"the-greatest-benefit-to-mankind-a-medical-history-of-humanity-paperback","title":"The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA definitive study of the history of medicine, from the earliest humans to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedicine is advancing at an incredible rate. We now have the ability to overcome sickness but also to transform the nature of life itself: in many parts of the world, human existence has simply ceased to be 'nasty, brutish and short'. In this titanic history of medicine and disease, Roy Porter examines the traditions of East and West to chart how this revolution has come about.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCovering medical milestones big and small - from dissection to surgery and from anaesthesia to AIDS - Roy Porter's masterpiece is both a superlative history of medicine and a sweeping survey of human life and death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368455078111,"sku":"9780006374541","price":25.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ep1RoRuerE9780006374541.webp?v=1789128452"},{"product_id":"blood-and-guts-a-short-history-of-medicine-paperback","title":"Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn eminently readable, entertaining romp through the history of our vain and valiant efforts to heal ourselves. Mankind's battle to stay alive and healthy for as long as possible is our oldest, most universal struggle. With his characteristic wit and vastly informed historical scope, Roy Porter examines the war fought between disease and doctors on the battleground of the flesh from ancient times to the present. He explores the many ingenious ways in which we have attempted to overcome disease through the ages: the changing role of doctors, from ancient healers, apothecaries, and blood-letters to today's professionals; the array of drugs, from Ayurvedic remedies to the launch of Viagra; the advances in surgery, from amputations performed by barbers without anesthetic to today's sophisticated transplants; and the transformation of hospitals from Christian places of convalescence to modern medical powerhouses. Cleverly illustrated with historic line drawings, the chronic ailments of humanity provide vivid anecdotes for Porter's enlightening story of medicine's efforts to prevail over a formidable and ever-changing adversary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376767631583,"sku":"9780393325690","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/yrOjPB8JkI9780393325690.webp?v=1789225284"},{"product_id":"the-greatest-benefit-to-mankind-a-medical-history-of-humanity-paperback-1","title":"The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailed as \"a remarkable achievement\" (\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e) and as \"a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking...a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book\" (\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e), Roy Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to mankind. Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of the culture in which it develops, covering ground from the diseases of the hunter-gatherers to the more recent threats of AIDS and Ebola, from the clearly defined conviction of the Hippocratic oath to the muddy ethical dilemmas of modern-day medicine. Offering up a treasure trove of historical surprises along the way, this book \"has instantly become the standard single-volume work in its field\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Lancet\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51379068829919,"sku":"9780393319804","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/zbNC1oAaC-9780393319804.webp?v=1789268482"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/roy-porter.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}