Bad Medicine. Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates descargar libro pdf

David Richard John Wootton (nacido el 15 de enero de 1952) es un historiador británico. Él es el Profesor de Historia de Aniversario en la Universidad de York. Pronunció la Conferencia Raleigh en la Academia Británica (2008); Carlyle Lectures en la Universidad de Oxford (2014); Benedict Lectures en la Universidad de Boston (2014).

Bad Medicine. Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates libro pdf leer y descargar por David Wootton

We all face disease and death, and rely on the medical profession to extend our lives. Yet, David Wootton argues, from the fifth century BC until the 1930s, doctors actually did more harm than good. In this controversial new account of the history of medicine, he asks just how much good it has done us over the years, and how much harm it continues to do today.