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Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / David Wootton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wootton, David, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Europe--History.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 304 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, David Wootton argues that, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good, and asks just how much harm they still do today.
- Contents:
- Hippocrates and Galen
- Ancient anatomy
- The canon
- The senses
- Vesalius and dissection
- Harvey and vivisection
- The invisible world
- Counting
- Birth of the clinic
- The laboratory
- John Snow and cholera
- Puerperal fever
- Joseph Lister and antiseptic surgery
- Alexander Fleming and penicillin
- Doll, Bradford Hill, and lung cancer
- Death deferred.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-76269-1
- 0-19-151672-4
- 1-4294-8715-1
- OCLC:
- 609832545
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