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Bad medicine [electronic resource]

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Title Bad medicine [electronic resource] : doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / David Wootton.
Publisher Oxford
New York : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2006
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Hippocrates and Galen -- Ancient anatomy -- The canon -- The senses -- Vesalius and dissection -- Harvey and vivisection -- The invisible world -- Counting -- Birth of the clinic -- The laboratory -- John Snow and cholera -- Puerperal fever -- Joseph Lister and antiseptic surgery -- Alexander Fleming and penicillin -- Doll, Bradford Hill, and lung cancer -- Death deferred.
Extent xiv, 304 p.
Language English
National Library system number 997010714115905171
MARC RECORDS
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