Bad Medicine
by David Wootton · first published 2006
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According to the fascinating book "Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Medicine-Doctors-Doing-Hippocrat...) Doctors were doing more harm than good right up until the 1950s and some even after that due to…
on “What Medieval Medicine and Computer Engineering have in common” ↗> Western medicine until after 1880 had rejected the benefits of cleanliness - with surgeons taught to operate covered in filth. If anyone's interested in a good read on this I'd recommend "Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates" by David Wootton https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Medicine-Doctors-Doing-Hippocrate... It's pretty eye-opening.
on “Art and Spirit in Mathematics: The Lessons of Japanese Temple Geometry (part I)” ↗…and (most dangerous of all) the blinkered zealot. While I admired the plot construction, I suspected that Shaw had created such character extremes for comic effect. However, having read David Wootton's Bad Medicine, I am now no longer insulted and, on behalf of my profession, feel somewhat grateful to Shaw for his restraint. For, as Wootton painstakingly argues in this short but undoubtedly explosive new book, the…
on “A doctor who treated Bach and Handel with disastrous results” ↗There's also a book called Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates from Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/bad-medicine-9780199... It's not by the same author, but adds a nice historical perspective.…
on “Tool 'names and shames' hidden drug trials” ↗