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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 833 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Medicine |
ISBN | : 0006374549 |
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Set to become the standard work on the history of medicine, this book is also a treasure trove of historical surprises. Roy Porter shows how lemons did as much as Nelson to defeat Napoleon and how African slaves became immune to malaria.
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind A Medical History of Humanity The Norton History of Science
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : 1999-10-17 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780393242447 |
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"To combine enormous knowledge with a delightful style and a highly idiosyncratic point of view is Roy Porter's special gift, and it makes [this] book . . . alive and fascinating and provocative on every page."—Oliver Sacks, M.D. Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Sunday 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 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 today's threat 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" (The Lancet). "The author's perceptiveness is, as usual, scalpel-sharp; his manner genially bedside; his erudition invigorating." - Simon Schama
Greatest Benefit To Mankind
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 874 |
Release | : 1999-10-17 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780393319804 |
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Explores the development of medicine against the backdrop of the religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of each age, and unearths a treasure trove of medicinal oddities
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 882 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105111450610 |
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A new comprehensive book on the history of medicine.
NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
Author | : Aristotle |
Publsiher | : 右灰文化傳播有限公司可提供下載列印 |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2017-04-20 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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�EVERY art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. But a certain difference is found among ends; some are activities, others are products apart from the activities that produce them. Where there are ends apart from the actions, it is the nature of the products to be better than the activities. Now, as there are many actions, arts, and sciences, their ends also are many; the end of the medical art is health, that of shipbuilding a vessel, that of strategy victory, that of economics wealth. But where such arts fall under a single capacity- as bridle-making and the other arts concerned with the equipment of horses fall under the art of riding, and this and every military action under strategy, in the same way other arts fall under yet others- in all of these the ends of the master arts are to be preferred to all the subordinate ends; for it is for the sake of the former that the latter are pursued. It makes no difference whether the activities themselves are the ends of the actions, or something else apart from the activities, as in the case of the sciences just mentioned.�
Pain Pleasure and the Greater Good
Author | : Cathy Gere |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226501857 |
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"Contents "--"Introduction: Diving into the Wreck" -- "1. Trial of the Archangels" -- "2. Epicurus at the Scaffold" -- "3. Nasty, British, and Short" -- "4. The Monkey in the Panopticon" -- "5. In Which We Wonder Who Is Crazy" -- "6. Epicurus Unchained" -- "Afterword: The Restoration of the Monarchy" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography
The Cambridge History of Medicine
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 2006-06-05 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521864268 |
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Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.
Flesh in the Age of Reason
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2005-01-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780141912257 |
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'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing scabrous diaries, dishing the dirt on long-dead bigwigs or evoking sympathy for human suffering, his grasp is masterly and his erudition appealing. I wish I could read it again for the first time: you can.' Times Educational Supplement, Book of the Week In this startlingly brilliant sequel to the prize-winning ENLIGHTENMENT Roy Porter completes his lifetime's work, offering a magical, enthusiastic and charming account of the writings of some of the most attractive figures ever to write English.