Demon Doctors: Physicians as Serial Killers

Abandoning the Hippocratic Oath, a few physicians over the past few centuries intentionally killed patients, experimental subjects, family members, and hapless strangers. Some had hundreds of victims; others destroyed or hid their victims' bodies well enough so the body count is uncertain.
This book describes the life, gruesome crimes and, in many cases, the punishments—usually hanging, but also the guillotine—that many of these healer-killers richly deserved.
Of the physicians-murderers in t...