The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present by Roy Porter

Norton History of Science

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present

Roy Porter

848 pages paperback 1997

10 editions

nonfiction health history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Set to become the standard work on the history of medicine, this book is also a treasure trove of historical surprises. Roy Porter shows how lemons did as much as Nelson to defeat Napoleon and how African slaves became immune to malaria.

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