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

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.

xiv, 304 pages bill ; 21 cm

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.