FRAMEWORKS
THE ANALYTICAL LENSES.
The frames the archive evaluates its cases against. Each is anchored to a cited scholarly source.
David Wootton
The chief obstacle to medical progress is psychological and cultural, not intellectual
Wootton, Bad Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 252 to 253 (Part III Conclusion) and pp. 283 to 284 (Conclusion).
David Wootton
The placebo bar: Wootton's operational definition of 'bad medicine'
Wootton, Bad Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 68.
David Wootton
The six obstacles to disconfirmation of bad medicine
Wootton, Bad Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 144 to 149 (Part II Conclusion, 'Trust Not the Physician').
David Wootton
The spurious-biomarker pattern: Wright's opsonin index as historical type-specimen
Wootton, Bad Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 244 (on Sir Almroth Wright's Inoculation Department at St Mary's Hospital and Fleming's role in it).
David Wootton
The three paradoxes of progress in medicine
Wootton, Bad Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 26 (Introduction).
David Wootton
The upper bound on medicine's contribution to 20th-century life expectancy
Wootton, Bad Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 275 (Chapter 14, 'A Few of Us Owe Our Lives to Modern Medicine').