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Blood and guts : a short history of medicine / Roy Porter.
- Title
- Blood and guts : a short history of medicine / Roy Porter.
- Author
- Porter, Roy, 1946-2002
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2003.
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Details
- Description
- x, 199 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- Chronicles the history of medicine, including the role of doctors, various attempts at controlling disease, and the progress of hospitals.
- Alternative Title
- Blood & guts
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Popular works
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-186) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Disease -- Ch. 2. Doctors -- Ch. 3. The body -- Ch. 4. The laboratory -- Ch. 5. Therapies -- Ch. 6. Surgery -- Ch. 7. The hospital -- Ch. 8. Medicine in modern society.
- ISBN
- 0393037622
- 9780393037623
- 0393325695
- 9780393325690
- LCCN
- ^^2003042078
- OCLC
- 51519697
- SCSB-12601958
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library