Dr. Golem

How to Think about Medicine

• Author(s): Harry Collins, Trevor Pinch,
• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
• Pages: 368
• ISBN_10: 1459605845
  ISBN_13: 9781459605848
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Health & Fitness / General , Medical / Diseases , Science / General ,

Description:... A creature of Jewish mythology, a golem is an animated being made by man from clay and water who knows neither his own strength nor the extent of his ignorance. Like science and technology, the subjects of Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch's previous volumes, medicine is also a golem, and this Dr. Golem should not be blamed for its mistakes - they ...