Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates by David Wootton

Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates

David Wootton

304 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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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...

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