Bad medicine doctors doing harm since Hippocrates /

Wootton, David, 1952-

Bad medicine doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / [electronic resource] : David Wootton. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xiv, 304 p.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015.


Mode of access: World Wide Web.






Medicine--History.--Europe
Medicine--History.--United States

R484 / .W66 2006

610.9