Medical Blunders: Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad and Dangerous
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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.
Author: R.M. Youngson
Format: Paperback, 320 pages, 130mm x 197mm, 290 g
Published: 1996, Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom
Genre: True Crime
Description
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.
Medical Blunders: Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad and Dangerous