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Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wootton, David, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Medicine > Europe > History.
Medicine > United States > History.
History of Medicine > Europe.
History of Medicine > United States.
History, Modern 1601- > Europe.
History, Modern 1601- > United States.
Treatment Failure > Europe.
Treatment Failure > United States.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of 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.