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doctors doing harm since Hippocrates

David Wootton

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

610.

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