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Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
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Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates

by David Wootton
Product Group: Book
Publisher: OUP Oxford (2006-06-22)
ISBN: 0192803557
EAN: 9780192803559
Dewy Decimal #: 610.9
Hardcover: 320 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: B466-1292
Condition: As New

Customer Reviews
A good read
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-07-04
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful

A history of medicine with a difference. This book tells more of the failures than of the triumphs and it is all the more richer for that. Medicine should have progressed faster than it did but to blame doctors entirely is not quite giving the whole picture. Similarly there some things that Wooton says that seem wrong in their entirety and putting the start date of medicine in the late eighteen hundred is a little disingenuous and ignores some of the early pioneers. Wooton's dismissal of the early medical profession is a little too arbitrary and the book could have used some better scholarship in backing the arguments it makes. Similarly ignoring economics and politics is also perhaps a little foolhardy especially when debating the dangers of smoking. Wooton manages to have this debate without mentioning Big Tobacco and their lobbies. Nevertheless this is an interesting social history of medicine and one that deserves to be read by all.

Doctor bashing - not on your life
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-10-24
17 out of 19 customers found this reveiw helpful

This is a well written and thought provoking book. It is supported by a website that is insightful and allows further investigation into some of the aspects raised within the book.

It is not a bash at doctors, but does lay out the history and progression of medicine in a new and fresh way. When I was reading it I spent time laughing and time feeling quite repulsed by some of the things that we have done in the name of medicine.

All I can say is READ it!

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