Wootton, David
Bad Medicine: Doing Harm Since Hippocrates - New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Includes further readings and index.
We all face disease and death, and rely on the medical profession to extend our lives. Yet, David Wootton argues, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good. In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, he asks just how much good it has done us over the years, and how much harm it continues to do today. - ;Just how much good has medicine done over the years, and how much harm does it continue to do?. The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC.
978019212798
Medicine - Europe -History.
Medicine - United States - History.
Medical - History.
610.9 / W918
Bad Medicine: Doing Harm Since Hippocrates - New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Includes further readings and index.
We all face disease and death, and rely on the medical profession to extend our lives. Yet, David Wootton argues, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good. In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, he asks just how much good it has done us over the years, and how much harm it continues to do today. - ;Just how much good has medicine done over the years, and how much harm does it continue to do?. The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC.
978019212798
Medicine - Europe -History.
Medicine - United States - History.
Medical - History.
610.9 / W918