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Blood and Guts by Roy Porter (formerly Professor of the Social History of Medicine, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London)
34.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Allen Lane History S.
This is a brief history of mankind's battle to stay alive. Each chapter sums up a different battlefield - from surgery to hospitals and to the body itself.
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine by Roy Porter
27.95 NZD
30.00 (6% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
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 ...Show more
Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter
55.00 NZD
60.00 (8% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey from the superstitious, spiritually obsessed Dark Ages to our modern perspective, based on reason and grounded in the body. He demonstrates how the explosion ...Show more
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