Roy Porter
Blood and Guts

2003 | Nakladatelství The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)

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 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. 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 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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O knize

Stav:	Nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	224
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	0141010649
ISBN:	9780141010649
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	17. 10. 2025 19:38
Číslo položky:	1422251

O autorovi

Roy Porter

Roy Porter byl profesorem sociálních dějin medicíny na Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine v Londýně. Je autorem mnoha studií i encyklopedických publikací zabývajících se dějinami lékařství.

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