Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates
Wootton, David, 1952-2007
Book
David Wootton argues that until the invention of antibiotics in the 1930s doctors, in general, did their patients more harm than good. He shows that throughout history and right up to the present, bad medical practice has often been deeply entrenched and stubbornly resistant to evidence.
Main title:
Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / David Wootton.
Author:
Edition:
[New ed.].
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Collation:
xiv, 314 p. : ill., map, port. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Previous ed.: 2006.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780199212798 (pbk)
Dewey class:
610.9
Language:
English
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BRN:
1140590