Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / / David Wootton
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| Autore: |
Wootton David <1952->
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| Titolo: |
Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / / David Wootton
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xiv, 304 p |
| Disciplina: | 610.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Medicine - Europe - History |
| Medicine - United States - History | |
| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bad medicine |
| ISBN: | 1-280-76269-1 |
| 0-19-151672-4 | |
| 1-4294-8715-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814211903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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