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Stanley Wilkin is a freelance lecturer and education consultant who has been on academia.edu for a number of years. He has published extensively in magazines.
AN UNUSUAL POWER
Only from the 1930s has medicine proved effective. Even then, treatments provided by GPs or within hospitals were as likely to kill as cure. Venesection was still widely used, along with many other curious treatments! And yet, in the same period the status and power of the medical profession was considerable, almost equal to today. Why exactly was this? Why had this strange social, economic and psychological situation developed? My ‘ An Unusual Power’ I hope answers this!
