Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine's Beautiful Idea and Our Difficulty Swallowing it | Druin Burch
The authors controversial argument is that for most of human history medicine has been a catastrophe. Over the last 2000 years doctors have killed patients far more often than they saved them, and patients have colluded because they trusted them. This book is about how little and how much has changed.
Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine's Beautiful Idea and Our Difficulty Swallowing it | 
