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Bad Medicine by David Wootton
Category: Science & Natural History
Taking a look at the history of medicine, this book argues that for more than 2300 years doctors have relied on their patients' misplaced faith in their ability to cure. It illustrates that, throughout history, bad medical practice has often been deeply entrenched and stubbornly resistant to evidence. ...Show more
Bad Medicine : Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates by David Wootton
Category: History
Just how much good has medicine done over the years? And how much damage does it continue to do? The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC. Yet until the invention of antibiotics in the 1930s doctors, in general, did their patients more harm than good. In this fascinating n ...Show more
Galileo: Watcher of the Skies by David Wootton
Category: unmapped
Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet forced to concede the importance of faith, and a brillia ...Show more
The Definitive Thelwell by David Wootton
Category: Humour
One of the most popular cartoonist since the WWII, Thelwell is best remembered for his little girls and their cheeky fat ponies. However, he was a wide-ranging artist who surveyed an impressive range of social subjects for a variety of newspapers and periodicals, most notably "Punch". This book contains ...Show more
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton
Category: Science
We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its history. Before 1492 it was assumed that all significan ...Show more
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton
Category: Science
Before 1492 it was assumed that all significant knowledge was already available; there was no concept of progress; people looked for understanding to the past not the future. This book argues that the discovery of America demonstrated that new knowledge was possible- indeed it introduced the very concep ...Show more
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