Bad Medicine. Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates Libro da scaricare in pdf

David Richard John Wootton (nato il 15 gennaio 1952) è uno storico britannico. È Professore di Storia dell'anniversario alla York University. Ha tenuto la Raleigh Lecture alla British Academy (2008); Carlyle Lectures all'Università di Oxford (2014); Benedict Lectures alla Boston University (2014).

Bad Medicine. Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates libro pdf letto e scaricato da 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.