Blood and guts: a short history of medicine
Auteur :
Porter, Roy
Éditeur :
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN :
9780141010649
Date de publication :
26 juin 2003
Dimensions :
19,7 x 12,9 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
199 g
Format :
B-format paperback
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Discusses about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. This book features various chapters that sum up one of these battlefields such as surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body. It is suitable for those who are keenly aware of their own mortality and wants to do something about it.