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title: "David Wootton"
date: "2010-09-15T00:00:00+01:00"
modified: "2010-09-15T00:00:00+01:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/contributors/david-wootton/"
post_id: 3681
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# David Wootton

David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History, University of York. He is author of Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates (Oxford University Press, 2007) and most recently Galileo: Watcher of the Skies (Yale University Press, 2011)