📚 Medical Misconceptions

Books with medical misconceptions on their catalogue record, first published between 1810 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject medical misconceptions in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 221 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	What Doctors Don't Tell You	Lynne McTaggart	1996	8
	Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology	Steven J. Lynn	2002	7
	Superstition in medicine	Hugo Magnus	1905	6
	Medical Misinformation and Social Harm in Non-Science Based Health Practices	Anita Lavorgna	2019	6
	On superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery	Thomas Joseph Pettigrew	1844	5
	Primitive Psychotherapy And Quackery	Robert Means Lawrence	1910	5
	The anxiety makers	Alex Comfort	1945	5
	Misinformation concerning child sexual abuse and adult survivors	Charles L. Whitfield	2002	5
	On superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery	Thomas Joseph Pettigrew	1844	4
	A philosophical essay on credulity and superstition	Rufus Blakeman	1849	4
	Can you get warts from touching toads?	Peter Rowan	1986	4
	The consumer's good chemical guide	John Emsley	1994	4
	Medical myths that can kill you	Nancy L. Snyderman	2008	4
	Infectious	Frank Bowden	2016	4
	Des erreurs populaires relatives à la médecine	Anthelme Richerand	1810	3
	Lessons from the history of medical delusions	Worthington Hooker	1850	3
	Volksmedicin und medicinischer Aberglaube in Steiermark	Viktor Fossel	1885	3
	The doctors' dilemmas	Lasagna, Louis	1962	3
	The effects of nutrition education on college students in regard to common nutrition misconceptions	Marsha Lynn Serling	1978	3
	Myths and shibboleths in nephrology	Eli A. Friedman	2002	3
	SvelteLife	Douglas Millet Cluff	2007	3
	Supplements exposed	Brian R. Clement	2010	3
	Overkill	Paul A. Offit	2020	3
	A philosophical essay on credulity and superstition, and also on animal fascination, or charming	Rufus Blakeman	1849	2
	Erreurs, superstitions, doctrines médicales	L. Perret	1879	2
	Volksmedizin und Aberglaube in Oberbayerns Gegenwart und Vergangheit	Max Höfler	1893	2
	Der Aberglaube in der Medizin und seine Gefahr für Gesundheit und Leben	David Hansemann	1905	2
	De l'influence des superstitions sur le dévelopmmement des sciences, médico-pharmaceutiques	François Doré	1920	2
	The anxiety makers	Alexander Comfort	1968	2
	Volksmedizin und medizinischer Aberglaube	Gottfried Lammert	1969	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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