Bad Medicine
Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
by David Wootton
314 pages· 2007· ISBN 9780199212798
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In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, David Wootton argues that, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good, and asks just how much harm they still do today.
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