Bad medicine : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / David Wootton.
Pubblicazione:
New York : Oxford university press, 2006.
Descrizione fisica:
XIV, 304 p. : ill., ritr. ; 21 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Note on sources. List of illustrations. List of tables. Introduction: bad medicine, better medicine. Pt. 1. The Hippocratic tradition: 1. Hippocrates and Galen 2. Ancient anatomy 3. The canon 4. The senses. Conclusion to part 1: The placebo effect. Pt. 2. Revolution postponed: 5. Vesalius and dissection 6. Harvey and vivisection 7. The invisible world. Conclusion to part 2: Trust not the physician. Pt. 3. Modern medicine: 8. Counting 9. Birth of the clinic 10. The laboratory 11. John Snow and cholera 12. Puerperal fever 13. Joseph Lister and antiseptic surgery 14. Alexander Fleming and penicillin. Conclusion to part 3: Progress delayed. Pt. 4. After contagion: 15. Doll, Bradford Hill and lung cancer 16. Death deferred. Conclusion. Further reading. Index
