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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: xiv, 304 pSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.9 22
LOC classification:
  • R484 .W66 2006
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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.
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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.

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