02406nam 22006374a 450 991081421190332120200520144314.01-280-76269-10-19-151672-41-4294-8715-1(CKB)1000000000476596(SSID)ssj0001142579(PQKBManifestationID)12374498(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001142579(PQKBWorkID)11098346(PQKB)10194342(SSID)ssj0000108502(PQKBManifestationID)11140296(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000108502(PQKBWorkID)10043721(PQKB)11116922(MiAaPQ)EBC431394(Au-PeEL)EBL431394(CaPaEBR)ebr10177862(CaONFJC)MIL76269(OCoLC)609832545(EXLCZ)99100000000047659620060223d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBad medicine doctors doing harm since Hippocrates /David Wootton1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press2006xiv, 304 pBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-921279-1 0-19-280355-7 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.In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, David Wootton argues that, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good, and asks just how much harm they still do today.MedicineEuropeHistoryMedicineUnited StatesHistoryMedicineHistory.MedicineHistory.610.9Wootton David1952-157522MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814211903321Bad medicine3960507UNINA