A Brief History of Bad Medicine (Brief Histories) by Schott, Ian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Preface Chapter 1 Famous quacks & infamous cures

Film-O-Sonics and other miracles of technology Quacks & the niche market Claudius Galen and the blood-letting disaster Hahnemann and homoeopathy The water cure The X-ray cure The blue glass cure-all The focal sepsis affair The bed rest blunder

Chapter 2 Sexual healing

Circumcision The crime of Onan The Semmelweiss scandal Chloroform orgasms Dr Battey and the epidemic of female mutilation Removing the clitoris Marie Stopes and the contraception debate The DES disaster Sex change Hysterical blunders Vicarious menstruation

Chapter 3 Fighting plagues

The plague and the dogma Dr John Snow and the Broad Street pump handle Their Lordships’ delays Linus Pauling and the vitamin C blunder Typhoid Mary The haemophiliac HIV disaster The AIDS causation blunders The discovery of the AIDS virus

Chapter 4 Dangerous doctors

‘Chevalier’ Taylor’s blinding career Horace Wells and the anaesthetic fiasco The addicted surgeon The monkey gland affair The fall of Ferdinand Sauerbruch The toxin doctor Therapeutic beneficence Medical litigation The problem of misdiagnosis

Chapter 5 Drugs worse than diseases

Dangerous blisters Freud and the cocaine blunder The bl ind baby blunder The drugging of Adolf Hitler Bad news about beta blockers The thalidomide story In sickness, in wealth The Opren case

Chapter 6 Blunders with the brain

Madmen on show Black butterflies Lop ’em, chop ’em, shock ’em Sigmund Freud and the talking cure The manufacture of madness

Chapter 7 Human guinea pigs

Human guinea pigs in Nazi Germany Human experimentation in postwar America Eugenics in America Eugenics in England Gregor Mendel and Negative Eugenics Eugenics and race In the deep freeze

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