Medical Blunders by Rm Youngson

Medical Blunders by Rm Youngson

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Summary

This is a collection of stories about medical blunders from both modern times and the past. The stories include a lobotomy without an anaesthetic, secret experiments on criminals and cancer patients, Victorian treatments for the insane, wonder drugs with nightmare side effects, and sex-changes.

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Medical Blunders by Rm Youngson

This is a collection of stories about medical blunders in the past and in modern life. The stories are of acts of arrogance, ignorance, cruelty and stupidity. They include tales of: a labotomy without anaesthetic, female mutilation, secret experiments on criminals, the insane and cancer patients, sex-changes, the doctors who become surgery addicts, wonder drugs with nightmare side-effects, the euthanasia experts, and chloroform orgasms.
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ISBN 13 9781854872593
ISBN 10 1854872591
Title Medical Blunders
Author R M Youngson
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 1996-04-15
Number of pages 320
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