Medical Murder
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Medical Murder

Disturbing Cases of Doctors Who Kill

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eBook - ePub

Medical Murder

Disturbing Cases of Doctors Who Kill

About this book

In January 2000, news headlines declared that Dr. Harold Shipman had been found guilty of murdering 15 of his patients. Before the trial, many assumed Shipman was an over-zealous doctor who went too far in providing comfort to dying patients. This was not the case. Shipman had deliberately and coldly murdered not 15, but 218 of his patients, though the real number may be evenhigher still. Medical Murder is a fascinating volume that explores some of the most famous cases of doctors who kill—such as Dr. Harry Bailey, a psychiatrist who dispatched more than 20 patients using the discredited Deep Sleep Therapy; Dr. Radovan Karadizic, the psychiatrist who led the genocide during the Bosnian War; and, Dr. William Palmer, who poisoned his victims for insurance money. It offers an intelligent look at the chilling paradox of why these healers spent years learning how to preserve life, only to turn their focus on how to end it.

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Information

Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9781741765779
Edition
0
Subtopic
Medicine Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. About the author
  6. Prologue
  7. 1: The rise and fall of the medical calling
  8. 2: Twentieth-century clinicide
  9. 3: Neurosurgeon with a needle
  10. 4: Doctor as demiurge
  11. 5: Early medical murder
  12. 6: A doctor’s own story
  13. 7: Searching for Shipman
  14. 8: More medical murder
  15. 9: Murdering the madam
  16. 10: Surgeons, sick and sinister
  17. 11: The deepest sleep
  18. 12: Killing with kindness
  19. 13: Psychiatrist of the Bosnian Genocide
  20. 14: Genocidal doctors
  21. 15: The past, present and future of clinicide
  22. Acknowledgements
  23. Bibliography
  24. ENDNOTES