PHYSIC AND FICTION CLASSIC REPRINT

ISBN: 9781334297229 Géneros: JKV Sinópsis: Excerpt from Physic and FictionThere are questions whose medical bearing is as obvious as their general importance though answers to them cannot be dictated by medicine Such questions are these for example to mention three that have received and will receive discus sion Whether health certificates are necessary for eugenic marriages Whether the profession of medicine is unduly or sufficiently controlled Whether secret poisoning is on the increase It may be easier to come to conclusions upon these and similar debateable matters if some of the reasons for and against prevalent views are set outI have gone to wellknown stories to illustrate certain of those views Most of the books quoted are many years old but they are ones with which every one may be familiar while any expression of opinion in them shows the long establishment of the methods of thoughtAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works