Author: Porter, Roy
Title: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
Description: New York, N.Y., U.S.A., W. W. Norton and Company, 1999. (ISBN: 0393319806) Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall, Book, 831 pages, 0393319806. Originally printed in 1997, First American Edition 1998. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Cover painting: The Agnew Clinic (1889) by Thomas Eakins. Heavy, may require extra postage. Spine pictorial top half with title in white, gold bottom with black text. Very Good.

Keywords: science, medicine; social medicine, history