The greatest benefit to mankind, Roy Porter

Автор: Roy Porter
Название: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
ISBN: 0393319806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393319804
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Цена: 45930 T
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Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking...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. Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of the culture in which it develops, covering ground from the diseases of the hunter-gatherers to the more recent threats of AIDS and Ebola, from the clearly defined conviction of the Hippocratic oath to the muddy ethical dilemmas of modern-day medicine. Offering up a treasure trove of historical surprises along the way, this book "has instantly become the standard single-volume work in its field" (The Lancet).

Автор: Roy Porter
Название: The Penguin Social History of Britain
ISBN: 0140138196 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140138191
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.

Автор: Roy Porter
Название: Enlightenment
ISBN: 014025028X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140250282
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. This work makes a case for considering Britain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America.

Автор: Roy Porter
Название: London
ISBN: 014010593X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140105933
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Описание: Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, and Spark. It is a celebration of the city and also an elegy for its decline, with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.