SUMPTUOUS PRESENTATION OF MEDICAL MILESTONES

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'The medical book' by Clifford A. Pickover. Pp 527. Price ￡19.99. China: Sterling; 2012. ISBN 978 1 4027 8585 6 I DID not expect the wow factor when I opened a book on the history of medicine. But Cliff Pickover's, review of milestones in medical science is presented in a sumptuous way, with clear text accompanied by lavish full-colour illustrations. 'The medical book' completes a trilogy with the author's earlier 'The math book' and 'The physics book'. As with its predecessors, it restricts itself to 250 bite-sized pieces of history, presented in roughly chronological order. It opens with the rise of the witch doctor in about 10,000BC and concludes with the first human cloning in 2008.