Taking The Medicine by William R. Burch
A brisk, accessible history of how doctors and patients learned—often painfully—what treatments actually work, tracing the shift from bloodletting and potions to randomized controlled trials, evidence-based practice, and modern pharmacology. It explores the seductions of quackery, the hazards of untested cures, and the ethical and cultural struggles around experimentation, using vivid case studies—from aspirin to thalidomide—to show why good evidence is hard-won and why skepticism and rigorous testing are essential to safe, effective medicine.
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