Harpercollins, Date: 1997-11-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1997. Harpercollins ISBN 0002151731 9780002151733 [US]

ISBN10: 0002151731, ISBN13: 9780002151733, [publisher: Harpercollins] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2.6
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ISBN10: 0002151731, ISBN13: 9780002151733, [publisher: Harpercollins] Hardcover New
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ISBN10: 0002151731, ISBN13: 9780002151733, 1997. HarperCollins. Soft covers. Book - VG.
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ISBN10: 0002151731, ISBN13: 9780002151733, [publisher: Harpercollins] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within
[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]

ISBN10: 0002151731, ISBN13: 9780002151733, [publisher: Harpercollins] Hardcover Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]

London : HarperCollins, Date: 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xvi, 831p ; 24 cm. Subjects: Medicine — History. 1997. London : HarperCollins ISBN 0002151731 9780002151733 [IE]

SOFTBACK ?HEAVY VOLUME,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: Date: 1997* Publisher: Harper Collins ~ London.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a surgeon at work. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Light creases & dish to faded spine, none to hinge. Seems lightly-used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. No tanning to contents, some darkening to top & fore edge, no other visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: Three x 8pp blocks of b/w photos. B/w line drawn plate to frontis.* Pages: 718 pp. text. cxiv pp. reading lists, index and blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- A medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present. A panoramic and perfectly magnificent intellectual history of medicine. One volume contains details of the development of medical knowledge and practice not only in Europe but around the world.* This is a NEAR VG++ copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. with minimal age & shelf wear.* 1997. HarperCollins ISBN 0002151731 9780002151733 [GB]

ISBN10: 0002151731, ISBN13: 9780002151733, [publisher: London : HarperCollins] Hardcover First Edition Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xvi, 831p ; 24 cm. Subjects: Medicine — History. 1 Kg.
[Galway, Ireland] [Publication Year: 1997]
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ISBN10: 0002151731, ISBN13: 9780002151733, [publisher: HarperCollins, London] Hardcover This copy is in fine condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight and square.There is some age toning to the page edges. The unclipped dust wrapper is sunned to the spine but still in fine condition. condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Medicine advances ever faster, and with it not just a capacity to overcome sickness, but to transform the very nature of life. Starting in ancient antiquity, this text charts how this health revolution came about and how life for human beings in the West has ceased, in Hobbes' memorable phrase, to be "nasty, brutish and short." Porter plots the growth of medical specialisms - pharmacology, physiology, anatomy, neurology, bacteriology - and the institutions of medicine - the hospital and asylum - to show how medical advances have often created as many problems as they have solved. The book also shows how the ancient Egyptians treated incipient baldness with a mixture of hippopotamus, lion, crocodile, goose, snake and ibex fat; how a mystery epidemic devastated ancient Athens and brought to an end the domination of that great city; and how lemons did as much as Nelson to ...

London: HarperCollinsPublishers, Date: 1997. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Hint of sunning to the spine. Pages very gently age-tanned. . Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9½” x 6¼” (1.6 kg); (xvi) 831pp; Index; 3rd impression, first published 1997. Contains: Further reading list; Black & white photographs; Black & white drawings; Frontispiece; ISBN: 0-002-15173-1 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #189457|| Condition: 1997. London: HarperCollinsPublishers ISBN 0002151731 9780002151733 [GB]

ISBN10: 0002151731, ISBN13: 9780002151733, [publisher: Harpercollins] Hardcover A VOLUMEOUS TOME ON THE MEDICAL HISTORY OF MANKIND TO THE PRESENT.
[Millmerran, QLD, Australia] [Publication Year: 1997]

Harpercollins 1997 Reprint Hardcover Good. No Jacket Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall;

HarperCollins 1997 Hardcover Very good ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.

ISBN10: 0002151731, ISBN13: 9780002151733, [publisher: Harper Collins] Softcover 8vo (23.5 cm), XVI, 831 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Medicine advances ever faster, and with it not just a capacity to overcome sickness, but to transform the very nature of life. Starting in ancient Antiquity, Roy Porter’s magnum opus charts how this health revolution came about and how life for human beings in the West has ceased, in Hobbes’ memorable phrase, to be ‘nasty, brutish and short’. Porter plots the growth of medical specialisms -- pharmacology, physiology, anatomy, neurology, bacteriology -- and the institutions of medicine – the hospital and asylum -- to show how medical advances have often created as many problems as they have solved." (from the publisher's synopsis)
[Kraków, Poland] [Publication Year: 1997]
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ISBN10: 0002151731, ISBN13: 9780002151733, [publisher: HarperCollins] Hardcover First Edition HarperCollins. 1997. Presumed first. Hard Cover. Book: Good, library plate and stamps. DJ: Good. 9.5x6.5. 831pp. Frontis, some b/w plates.
[Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1997]
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Harper Collins, Date: 1997 8vo (23.5 cm), XVI, 831 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Medicine advances ever faster, and with it not just a capacity to overcome sickness, but to transform the very nature of life. Starting in ancient Antiquity, Roy Porter’s magnum opus charts how this health revolution came about and how life for human beings in the West has ceased, in Hobbes’ memorable phrase, to be ‘nasty, brutish and short’. Porter plots the growth of medical specialisms -- pharmacology, physiology, anatomy, neurology, bacteriology -- and the institutions of medicine – the hospital and asylum -- to show how medical advances have often created as many problems as they have solved." (from the publisher's synopsis) 1997. Harper Collins ISBN 0002151731 9780002151733 [PL]

London HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 1997 Hard cover Good. 700 p. Contains: Unspecified. Includes unspecified.

ISBN10: 0002151731, ISBN13: 9780002151733, [publisher: HarperCollins, 1997.] Hardcover 3rd impression. 8vo. xvi + 831pp. B/w. illustrations. Margins of pages browned. Original boards. Pictorial navy d/w. lettered in gilt and white, some minor wear. ISBN 0002151731 US$14
[Hay on Wye, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1997]

London: Harpercollins. 700pp hardback, blue boards gilt in wrapper, ownership signature . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Date: 1997. 1997. Harpercollins ISBN 0002151731 9780002151733 [GB]

ISBN10: 0002151731, ISBN13: 9780002151733, [publisher: Harpercollins] Hardcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]

London: Harpercollins, Date: 1997. First Edition . Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. paperback, illustrated, 832 pages, near fine. shelf 153. 1997. Harpercollins ISBN 0002151731 9780002151733 [GB]

London: Harpercollins, Date: 1997. First Edition . Paperback. Near Fine/None. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. softcover, 831 pages, near fine. 1997. Harpercollins ISBN 0002151731 9780002151733 [GB]

ISBN10: 0002151731, ISBN13: 9780002151733, [publisher: Harper Collins, London] Softcover Harper Collins, London, 1997. Pictorial soft cover. Book condition : Very good, appears little read, clean text. mild creasing spine. Heavy book may incur extra postage. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #AF019125.
[Cramlington, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1997]