The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
by Roy Porter
updated 4mo ago
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
By 1932, the historian Henry E. Sigerist had noted that medicine’s systemizing impulses were “no longer concerned with man but with disease,” as Anderson and Mackay point out.
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