Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates, (Paperback)

from oataker

This is not a story of the irresistible progress of scientific medicine; Wooton's theme is that advances came in spite of doctors and the medical profession Everybody knows about Fleming and penicillin but not that he was perhaps the fifth doctor to notice that penicillin mould destroyed bacteria...

from thewatch

A revealing and in depth look at the history of medicine, and how it has brought a great deal of harm to many people over the centuries. There is equally time given to innovators and discoverers of genuine worth. I found it well written and fascinating and impossible to put down. The necessary ch...

from thewatch

A revealing and in depth look at the history of medicine, and how it has brought a great deal of harm to many people over the centuries. There is equally time given to innovators and discoverers of genuine worth. I found it well written and fascinating and impossible to put down. The necessary ch...