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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford; 1 edition (22 Nov 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0199212791
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199212798
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 120,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book is provocative and well written; it leaves you wanting to find out more. (Sameer Rahim, Daily Telegraph )

Bad Medicine is provocative and iconoclastic; essential reading for every GP. (PD Smith, The Guardian )

Daily Telegraph, 29 July 2006

a 'lucid, elegantly written and pleasingly slim book' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good read, 4 July 2008
This review is from: Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates (Paperback)
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.
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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Doctor bashing - not on your life, 24 Oct 2006
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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Exhilarating & refreshing, 31 Jan 2012
This review is from: Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates (Paperback)
What makes a history readable? Normally for me it's being structured around a biography. Here it's just the vivid narrative. Wootton tells the surprising story of doctors, as his subtitle says, doing more harm than good. It's pithy, persuasive and superbly readable. I couldn't get my nose out of the pages, and it's one of the few books (even amongst those I've enjoyed greatly) that have stayed very much in my mind ever since. Thoroughly recommended, and no particular knowledge or interest is required from the reader - just a willingness to be absorbed in a terrific historical story.
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