Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates

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Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates
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doctors doing harm since Hippocrates
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David Wootton
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Doctors doing harm since Hippocrates
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eng
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"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
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DNLM/DLC
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610.9
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illustrations
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non fiction
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bibliography

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