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Just how much good has medicine done over the years? And how much damage does it continue to do? The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC. Yet until the invention of antibiotics in the 1930s doctors, in general, did their pa
A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin's Ghosts --a groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves a
We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its histor
A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents. We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoningcost-benefit analysisto get it. We judge ourselves and
Paolo Sarpi (15521623) is remembered as the defender of Venice against the Papal Interdict of 1606 and as the first, and greatest, historian of the Counter-Reformation. The sources of his undoubted hostility to clerical authority have always been a matter