Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / David Wootton.

By:

Wootton, David, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780191516726
0191516724
1280762691
9781280762697

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bad medicine.DDC classification:

610.9 22

LOC classification:

R484 .W66 2006eb

NLM classification:

WZ 70 GA1

Other classification:

44.01
XB 2200

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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.

Summary: We all face disease and death, and rely on the medical profession to extend our lives. Yet, David Wootton argues, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good. In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, he asks just how much good it has done us over the years, and how much harm it continues to do today. - ;Just how much good has medicine done over the years, and how much harm 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 g.

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We all face disease and death, and rely on the medical profession to extend our lives. Yet, David Wootton argues, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good. In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, he asks just how much good it has done us over the years, and how much harm it continues to do today. - ;Just how much good has medicine done over the years, and how much harm 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 g.

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