{"product_id":"9780141010649","title":"Blood and Guts : A Short History of Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Porter, Roy \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 26\/06\/2003,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 224 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141010649,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects.  This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death.  Each chapter sums up one of these battlefields (surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body) in a way that is both frightening and elating.  Startlingly illustrated, A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDICINE is the ideal presentfor anyone who is keenly aware of their own mortality and wants to do something about it.  It is also a wonderful memorial to one of Penguin's greatest historians.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697321410604,"sku":"9780141010649","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780141010649_e26f1000-abe4-4644-977b-6b9b5cdd581c.jpg?v=1759667692","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780141010649","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}