Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
- ISBN-10
- 0199212791
- ISBN-13
- 9780199212798
- Series
- Bad Medicine
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 314
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-11-22
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- David Wootton
Description
In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, David Wootton argues that, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good, and asks just how much harm they still do today.
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