Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Sunday Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking .
Porter explores medicine\'s evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and po. a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times), Roy Porter\'s charting of the History of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to mankind. . .
Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Sunday Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking