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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
Roy Porter
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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
Roy Porter
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.
224 pages, b&w illustrations, further reading, index
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 26, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780141010649 |
| Publishers | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 129 × 197 × 17 mm · 200 g |
| Language | English |
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