Blood and Guts
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.
Product Information
Roy Porter is the author of "Enlightenment" and "London: A Social History".
Winner of Wolfson Literary Award for History 1992.
Roy Porter was until his retirement Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. The last book Enlightenment won a 2001 Wolfson Prize. Roy Porter died March 3rd 2002.
Disease; doctors; the body; the laboratory; therapies; surgery; the hospital; medicine in modern society.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Allen Lane
- : 0.353
- : 31 October 2002
- : 205mm X 138mm X 24mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Roy Porter (formerly Professor of the Social History of Medicine, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London)
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : 610.9
- : 224
- : b&w illustrations, index
