Quantification and the quest for medical certainty /

Since its inception in World War II, the clinical trial has evolved into a standard procedure in determining therapeutic efficacy in many Western industrial democracies. Its features include a "control" group of patients that do not receive the experimental treatment, the random allocation...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Matthews, J. Rosser, 1964-
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©1995.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1t1kg31
جدول المحتويات:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter One PROBABLE KNOWLEDGE IN THE PARISIAN SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL COMMUNITIES DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
  • Chapter Two LOUIS'S "NUMERICAL METHOD" IN EARLYNINETEENTH- CENTURY PARISIAN MEDICINE: THE RHETORIC OF QUANTIFICATION
  • Chapter Three NINETEENTH-CENTURY CRITICS OF GAVARRET'S PROBABILISTIC APPROACH
  • Chapter Four THE LEGACY OF LOUIS AND THE RISE OF PHYSIOLOGY: CONTRASTING VISIONS OF MEDICAL "OBJECTIVITY"
  • Chapter Five THE BRITISH BIOMETRICAL SCHOOL AND BACTERIOLOGY: THE CREATION OF MAJOR GREENWOOD AS A MEDICAL STATISTICIAN
  • Chapter Six THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN CLINICAL TRIAL: THE CENTRAL ROLE OF THE MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
  • Chapter Seven A. BRADFORD HILL AND THE RISE OF THE CLINICAL TRIAL
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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