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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

Roy Porter

How did medicine get from medieval practice to modern biomedicine, and what has changed for the patient along the way?

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Author
Roy Porter

Why read it

  • You will see how new science, public health and surgery each changed what doctors could actually do
  • You will understand why patients can feel like numbers in a system, and how that came about
  • You will be able to ask better questions about transplants, cloning and genetic medicine, and what they do to our idea of being human

Who it is for

  • A patient or relative trying to make sense of a hospital system
  • A doctor or nurse who wants the long view of their trade
  • Someone curious why modern medicine feels both powerful and impersonal

Contents

  1. I Introduction
  2. V The Medieval West
  3. IX The New Science
  4. XI Scientific Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
  5. XIII Public Medicine
  6. XIV From Pasteur to Penicillin
  7. XVII Medical Research
  8. XIX Surgery
  9. XXI Medicine and the People
  10. More praise for: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

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