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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Edwards, Martin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Series:Wellcome series in the history of medicine.
Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 82.
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