Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine (平装)

分類: 图书,进口原版书,History(历史),
品牌: Roy Porter
基本信息出版社:Penguin (2003年6月26日)平装:224页正文语种:英语ISBN:0141010649条形码:9780141010649产品尺寸及重量:19.2 x 12.8 x 2 cm ; 223 gASIN:0141010649
商品描述内容简介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 (surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body) in a way that is both frightening and elating. Startlingly illustrated, "A Short History of Medicine" is the ideal present for anyone who is keenly aware of their own mortality and wants to do something about it. It is also a wonderful memorial to one of Penguin's greatest historians.媒体推荐'Nobody will be able to put down this short history of medicine... without counting their blessings. Never have I read a book which made me so glad not to have been born before the mid-20th century.' Daily Mail