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Bad Medicine by David Wootton
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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
$32.95 AUD
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 Wootton David
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A provocative and penetrating new life of Galileo, placing the man, his achievements, and his failures in the broader history of the Scientific Revolution 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, ...Show more
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton
$69.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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
$29.99 AUD
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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