Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine's Beautiful Idea, and Our Difficulty Swallowing It (Record no. 294986)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781845951504
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 615.109 BUR-T
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Druin Burch
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine's Beautiful Idea, and Our Difficulty Swallowing It
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Vintage
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2010
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 330 pages ; 24 cm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Doctors and patients alike trust the medical profession and its therapeutic powers; yet this trust has often been misplaced. Whether prescribing opium or thalidomide, aspirin or antidepressants, doctors have persistently failed to test their favourite ideas - often with catastrophic results. From revolutionary America to Nazi Germany and modern big-pharmaceuticals, this is the unexpected story of just how bad medicine has been, and of its remarkably recent effort to improve. It is the history of well-meaning doctors misled by intuition, of the startling human cost of their mistakes and of the exceptional individuals who have helped make things better. Alarming and optimistic, Taking the Medicine is essential reading for anyone interested in how and why to trust the pills they swallow.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Drugs -- History. Pharmacology -- History. Drugs -- Effectiveness -- History.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 01/09/2015 1 615.109 BUR-T DCB1652 14/02/2019 14/02/2019 19/07/2019 Book