Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / David Wootton.
- Wootton, David, 1952-
- Date:
- 2006
- Books
- Online
About this work
Also known as
Bad medicine (Online)
Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
Publication/Creation
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series
Contributors
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Holdings
- 1 Jan. 2007 - 31 Dec. 2007
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ISBN
- 9780191516726 (online)
- 9781280762697 (online)
- 9781429487153 (online)