RecordNumber
144
Author
Wootton, David,1952-
Title
Bad medicine
SubTitle
doctors doing harm since Hippocrates
Author Statement
David Wootton
Publication
Oxford University Press
Publication Year
2006
Collation
xiv, 304 p.
Notes
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
Subject
Medicine --EuropeHistory , Medicine --United StatesHistory , History of Medicine --Europe , History of Medicine --United States , History, Modern 1601- --Europe , History, Modern 1601- --United States , Treatment Failure --Europe , Treatment Failure --United States
Main class
610.
Sub class
9
Cutter no
W918b
ISBN
978–0–19–280355–9