The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

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A true medical classic should read as if the author wrote the book with your exact needs in mind, and when my interest in medical history burgeoned at medical school I found such a book in The Greatest Benefit to Mankind . Roy Porter, then professor of social history at the Wellcome Institute, said in his introduction that he wrote the book because when “[I am asked] to recommend an up-to-date and readable single-volume history of medicine, I have felt at a loss to know what to suggest. Writing it has made it clear why so few …

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