Bad medicine [[electronic resource] ] : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / / David Wootton |
Autore | Wootton David <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | xiv, 304 p |
Disciplina | 610.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine - Europe - History
Medicine - United States - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-76269-1
0-19-151672-4 1-4294-8715-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452151503321 |
Wootton David <1952->
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||
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Bad medicine [[electronic resource] ] : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / / David Wootton |
Autore | Wootton David <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | xiv, 304 p |
Disciplina | 610.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine - Europe - History
Medicine - United States - History |
ISBN |
1-280-76269-1
0-19-151672-4 1-4294-8715-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778128203321 |
Wootton David <1952->
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / / David Wootton |
Autore | Wootton David <1952-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | xiv, 304 p |
Disciplina | 610.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine - Europe - History
Medicine - United States - History |
ISBN |
1-280-76269-1
0-19-151672-4 1-4294-8715-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814211903321 |
Wootton David <1952->
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Galileo : watcher of the skies / / David Wootton |
Autore | Wootton David <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
Disciplina | 520.92 |
Soggetto topico | Astronomers - Italy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-300-17006-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Conjectural history -- 1. His father's son -- 2. Florence -- 3. Galileo's lamp -- 4. Eureka! -- 5. Seeing is believing -- 6. A friend in need -- 7. Juvenilia -- 8. The Leaning Tower -- 9. Inertia -- 10. Nudism -- 11. Copernicanism -- 12. Money -- 13. Fields of fire -- 14. The experimental method -- 15. The telescope -- 16. Mother -- 17. The Starry Messenger -- 18. Florence and buoyancy -- 19. Jesuits and the new astronomy -- 20. Sunspots -- 21. The Catholic scientist -- 22. Copernicus condemned -- 23. Comets -- 24. The death of Gianfrancesco Sagredo -- 25. Urban VIII -- 26. Family ties -- 27. Permission to publish -- 28. Alessandra Buonamici -- 29. A river floods -- 30. Publication -- 31. The Dialogue -- 32. Maria Celeste and Arcetri -- 33. Trial -- 34. The Two New Sciences -- 35. Vincenzo, son of Galileo -- 36. Galileo's (un)belief -- 37. The cosmography of the self -- Coda: Galileo, history and the historians -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464379203321 |
Wootton David <1952->
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New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Galileo : watcher of the skies / / David Wootton |
Autore | Wootton David <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
Disciplina | 520.92 |
Soggetto topico | Astronomers - Italy |
ISBN | 0-300-17006-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Conjectural history -- 1. His father's son -- 2. Florence -- 3. Galileo's lamp -- 4. Eureka! -- 5. Seeing is believing -- 6. A friend in need -- 7. Juvenilia -- 8. The Leaning Tower -- 9. Inertia -- 10. Nudism -- 11. Copernicanism -- 12. Money -- 13. Fields of fire -- 14. The experimental method -- 15. The telescope -- 16. Mother -- 17. The Starry Messenger -- 18. Florence and buoyancy -- 19. Jesuits and the new astronomy -- 20. Sunspots -- 21. The Catholic scientist -- 22. Copernicus condemned -- 23. Comets -- 24. The death of Gianfrancesco Sagredo -- 25. Urban VIII -- 26. Family ties -- 27. Permission to publish -- 28. Alessandra Buonamici -- 29. A river floods -- 30. Publication -- 31. The Dialogue -- 32. Maria Celeste and Arcetri -- 33. Trial -- 34. The Two New Sciences -- 35. Vincenzo, son of Galileo -- 36. Galileo's (un)belief -- 37. The cosmography of the self -- Coda: Galileo, history and the historians -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789165903321 |
Wootton David <1952->
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New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Galileo : watcher of the skies / / David Wootton |
Autore | Wootton David <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
Disciplina | 520.92 |
Soggetto topico | Astronomers - Italy |
ISBN | 0-300-17006-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Conjectural history -- 1. His father's son -- 2. Florence -- 3. Galileo's lamp -- 4. Eureka! -- 5. Seeing is believing -- 6. A friend in need -- 7. Juvenilia -- 8. The Leaning Tower -- 9. Inertia -- 10. Nudism -- 11. Copernicanism -- 12. Money -- 13. Fields of fire -- 14. The experimental method -- 15. The telescope -- 16. Mother -- 17. The Starry Messenger -- 18. Florence and buoyancy -- 19. Jesuits and the new astronomy -- 20. Sunspots -- 21. The Catholic scientist -- 22. Copernicus condemned -- 23. Comets -- 24. The death of Gianfrancesco Sagredo -- 25. Urban VIII -- 26. Family ties -- 27. Permission to publish -- 28. Alessandra Buonamici -- 29. A river floods -- 30. Publication -- 31. The Dialogue -- 32. Maria Celeste and Arcetri -- 33. Trial -- 34. The Two New Sciences -- 35. Vincenzo, son of Galileo -- 36. Galileo's (un)belief -- 37. The cosmography of the self -- Coda: Galileo, history and the historians -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808643303321 |
Wootton David <1952->
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New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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