Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates /
Wootton, David, 1952-
Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / David Wootton. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9780191516726 0191516724 1280762691 9781280762697
Medicine--History.--Europe
Medicine--History.--United States
Medicine--History.
History of Medicine
History, Modern 1601-
Treatment Failure
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Médecine--Histoire.--Europe
Médecine--Histoire.
Médecine--Histoire--1500-
Échec du traitement (Médecine)
history of medicine.
MEDICAL--History.
Medicine.
Medicine--History.
Medical innovations--History.
Medicine--Practice--History.
Medical errors--History.
Europe.
Europe
United States
Europe.
Europe.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
R484 / .W66 2006eb
610.9
WZ 70 GA1 / W918b 2006
Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / David Wootton. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
9780191516726 0191516724 1280762691 9781280762697
Medicine--History.--Europe
Medicine--History.--United States
Medicine--History.
History of Medicine
History, Modern 1601-
Treatment Failure
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Médecine--Histoire.--Europe
Médecine--Histoire.
Médecine--Histoire--1500-
Échec du traitement (Médecine)
history of medicine.
MEDICAL--History.
Medicine.
Medicine--History.
Medical innovations--History.
Medicine--Practice--History.
Medical errors--History.
Europe.
Europe
United States
Europe.
Europe.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
R484 / .W66 2006eb
610.9
WZ 70 GA1 / W918b 2006