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Medical Blunders: Amazing true stories of mad, bad and dangerous doctors

Medical Blunders: Amazing true stories of mad, bad and dangerous doctors

R.M. Youngson,Ian Schott

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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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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Title - Medical Blunders: Amazing true stories of mad, bad and dangerous doctors

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Author - R.M. Youngson,Ian Schott

ISBN 13 - 9781854872593

Imprint - Robinson Publishing

Publisher - Little, Brown Book Group

Date Published - 15/04/1996

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 130 x 197 x 28mm

Weight - 290 g

Languages - English