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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778128203321

Autore

Wootton David <1952->

Titolo

Bad medicine [[electronic resource] ] : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / / David Wootton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-76269-1

0-19-151672-4

1-4294-8715-1

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 304 p

Disciplina

610.9

Soggetti

Medicine - Europe - History

Medicine - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.