Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine

ISBN-13: 9780141010649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 224 str.

Roy Porter

Opis

Discusses about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. This book features various chapters that sum up one of these battlefields such as surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body. It is suitable for those who are keenly aware of their own mortality and wants to do something about it.