Even Immortality
Thomas Laqueur: Medicomania, 29 July 1999
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present
by Roy Porter.
HarperCollins, 833 pp., £24.99, February 1999,0 00 637454 9 Show More
by Roy Porter.
HarperCollins, 833 pp., £24.99, February 1999,
“... successful management do give us more time to suffer the pains and debilities of old age but, as Woody Allen noted, consider the alternative. Still, Porter is on to something important here and the tension between his two narratives – the Exodus narrative of liberation from ignorance and disease, the other its ironic doppelgänger – suffuses his ... ”