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Control and the therapeutic trial : rhetoric and experimentation in Britain, 1918-48 /
Annotation How do doctors decide whether their drugs, or other treatments, actually work? In practice this can be fiendishly difficult. Nowadays the gold standard is the randomised controlled trial (RCT). But the RCT is a recent invention, and the story of how it came to dominate therapeutic evaluat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Colección: | Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 82. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- CONTROL AND THE THERAPEUTIC TRIAL; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on National Archives Source Material; Introduction; 1. No Word is Innocent: The History and Rhetoric of Controlled Trials prior to 1948; 2. Good, Bad or Offal? The Rhetoric of Control in the Evaluation of Raw Pancreas Therapy; 3. Bright Lights, Smoky Cities: Light Therapy in 1920s Britain; 4. Control and the MRC's Evaluation of Serum Therapy for Pneumonia, 1929-34; 5. Keeping it Controlled: The MRC's Trials of Immunisation against Influenza.
- 6. Whose Words are they Anyway? The Contrasting Strategies of Almroth Wright and Bradford Hill to Capture the Nomenclature of Controlled Trials7. Conclusion: What's Controlled about the Controlled Trial?; Bibliography; Index.