Just how much good has medicine done over the years, and how much harm does it continue to do?

Afterwords

For further discussion of issues raised in Bad Medicine see the following:

Robert Woods, "Medical and Demographic History Inseparable", Social History of Medicine 20 (2007), 483-503, which can be downloaded from this site:
http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/hkm072v1

 

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