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Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates (Paperback)

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Paperback: 320 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: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Sunday Telegraph, 28 May 2006
'this is a very stimulating and thought-provoking book' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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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 )

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good read, 4 Jul 2008

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Doctor bashing - not on your life, 24 Oct 2006

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This review is from: Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates (Hardcover)

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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