The Resource Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates, David Wootton
Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates, David Wootton
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The item Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates, David Wootton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- "In this new look at the history of medicine, David Wootton argues that for more than 2300 years doctors relied on their patients' misplaced faith in their ability to cure. Over and over again major discoveries which could save lives were met with professional resistance. And this is not just a phenomenon of the distant past. The first patient effectively treated with penicillin was in the 1880s; the second not until the 1940s. There was overwhelming evidence that smoking caused lung cancer in the 1950s; but it took thirty years for doctors to accept the claim that smoking was addictive. As Wootton graphically illustrates, throughout history and right up to the present, bad medical practice has often been deeply entrenched and stubbornly resistant to evidence."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 304 p.
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780192803559
- Label
- Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates
- Title
- Bad medicine
- Title remainder
- doctors doing harm since Hippocrates
- Statement of responsibility
- David Wootton
- Title variation
- Doctors doing harm since Hippocrates
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In this new look at the history of medicine, David Wootton argues that for more than 2300 years doctors relied on their patients' misplaced faith in their ability to cure. Over and over again major discoveries which could save lives were met with professional resistance. And this is not just a phenomenon of the distant past. The first patient effectively treated with penicillin was in the 1880s; the second not until the 1940s. There was overwhelming evidence that smoking caused lung cancer in the 1950s; but it took thirty years for doctors to accept the claim that smoking was addictive. As Wootton graphically illustrates, throughout history and right up to the present, bad medical practice has often been deeply entrenched and stubbornly resistant to evidence."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DNLM/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1952-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wootton, David
- Dewey number
- 610.9
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Medicine
- Vaccination
- Medical innovations
- Medicine
- Diseases
- Bacteria
- Medical errors
- Physicians
- Medicine
- Label
- Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates, David Wootton
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 000040104608
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- xiv, 304 p.
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780192803559
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2006006509
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates, David Wootton
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 000040104608
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- xiv, 304 p.
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780192803559
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2006006509
- Other physical details
- ill.
Subject
- Diseases -- Treatment | History
- Medical errors -- History
- Medical innovations -- History
- Medicine -- Europe -- History
- Bacteria -- Effect of drugs on | History
- Medicine -- United States -- History
- Physicians -- Professional ethics | History
- Vaccination -- History
- Medicine -- Practice | History
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