Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine's Beautiful Idea and Our Difficulty Swallowing It

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Whether prescribing opium or thalidomide, aspirin or antidepressants, doctors have consistently failed to test their favorite ideas--often with catastrophic results. Only with the development of antibiotics after World War II did doctors begin to cure more than they killed. Both alarming and optimistic, this is essential reading for anyone interested in how and why to trust the pills they swallow.

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• Digging Up the Dead: The Life and Times of Astley Cooper, an Extraordinary Surgeon di Druin Burch (2008)
• Taking the Medicine di Druin Burch (1998)