The Greatest Benefit to Mankind (1997)
Published Jan 1, 1997

If you read one survey, make it this one. Porter starts with the Hippocratic tradition and runs to the present day of the late 1990s in a little over 800 pages, with chapters on Indian and Chinese medicine alongside the Western story he mostly tells. What keeps it from being a parade of great men…

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