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