num_pages: 320
description: 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 hasdone us over the years, and how much harm it continues to do today.
language: English
title: Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
publisher: Oxford University Press