The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:Roy Porter

页数:872

出版时间:1999-10-17

价格:USD 24.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780393319804

图书标签:医学历史医疗史英国研究医学史RoyPorterE

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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

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Blood and Guts读后的延伸版。虽然我们依赖医学，把医生变成英雄，但必须要知道，医学能够拯救的，只是极少一部分人，但它仍是Samuel johnson口中“the greatest benefit to mankind”。

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magnificent book about human