The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (Porter, 1997)
1997 · Resource
Roy Porter's landmark one-volume history of medicine from antiquity to the twentieth century, the standard popular survey of the whole subject. Dated to its 1997 publication; the book ranges across all of medical history.
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Around 1997
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
- Global financial crisis (2007)
- iPhone launched (2007)
- End of apartheid in South Africa (1994)
- Iraq War begins (2003)
- Revolutions of 1989 (1989)