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Inclusion : the politics of difference in medical research /
With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions. Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists oft...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions. Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists often studied groups of white, middle-aged men?and assumed that conclusions drawn from studying them would apply to the rest of the population. But struggles involving advocacy groups, experts, and Congress led to reforms that forced researchers to diversify the population from which they drew for clin. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 413 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-394) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226213118 0226213110 1281956791 9781281956798 9786611956790 6611956794 |