TY - BOOK AU - Porter,Roy TI - The greatest benefit to mankind: a medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present SN - 0393319806 AV - R131 .P59 1997 U1 - ARCH YNDC 610.9 P844G 21 PY - 1998/// CY - New York: London PB - W.W. Norton & Company, KW - History of Medicine KW - Social Medicine KW - history KW - Medicine KW - History KW - Social medicine N1 - British ed. published with subtitle: A medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present; Includes bibliographical references (p. 719-764) and index; Introduction -- The roots of medicine -- Antiquity -- Medicine and faith -- The medieval west -- Indian medicine -- Chinese medicine -- Renaissance -- The new science -- Enlightenment -- Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century -- Nineteenth-century medical care -- Public medicine -- From Pasteur to penicillin -- Tropical medicine, world diseases -- Psychiatry -- Medical research -- Clinical science -- Surgery -- Medicine, state and society -- Medicine and the people -- The past, the present and the future ER -