The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
#1165 of 3,809 books · #457 in History
Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (1998).
A panoramic, illustrated history 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.
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Company Incorporated
- ISBN-13
- 9780393046342
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Awards
Other awarded books from Roy Porter
- Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (2001)1 win · 8 score
- The Bible as It Was (1998)0 wins · 4 score
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