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Does anyone here have any suggestions for good books about the history of medicine? I've already read "Kill or Cure," and I liked it, but it felt superficial to me. I'm not necessarily looking for one single book. A number of books about different period in history would be fine too. I'm not really interested in Victorian-era medicine, more so ancient medicine through the renaissance period.
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The standard text for the long history of medicine is Roy Porter's The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present. It's a pretty massive overview, but Porter is anything but superficial. Before his untimely death, he was--and arguably still is--the single most important modern history of medicine in the West.