Roy Porter offers us a refreshing history of the medicine for laymen in which there reflects the evolution of the medical science, the relation doctor - patient or the perception of the illness and the death. The multiple forms are explored, so much curious and creative, as terrible sometimes, to that the humanity has resorted to fight against the illnesses throughout the centuries: from the alternative remedies up to the antibiotics, from the bled ones up to the x-rays, from the coarse amputations up to the sophisticated ones transplant of organs. With an extraordinary cast of barbers, chatterboxes, pharmacists, sorcerers and anatomists, Roy Porter presents an illuminating, entertaining vision to us and, often, terrifying of our continuous search of the immortality.
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