Medical Proofs, Social Experiments (eBook, ePUB)

Clinical Trials in Shifting Contexts
Redaktion: Will, Catherine; Moreira, Tiago

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Clinical trials have become key technologies for decision making in the contemporary world. Their results shape medical practice and determine priorities across health care systems, but the work that goes into producing credible data is often hidden. Medical Proofs, Social Experiments draws upon detailed case studies to argue that to understand their value we need to pay more attention to the contexts for these modern medical experiments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317098317
• Artikelnr.: 49365999

Autorenporträt

Catherine Will lectures in Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK. Tiago Moreira lectures in the School of Social Sciences at Durham University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction, Catherine Will, Tiago Moreira; Part I The Practices
of Research; Chapter 1a Reconciling Research with Medical Care in RCTs,
Stefan Timmermans; Chapter 2 Bridging the Ontological Divide: Different
Social Worlds in the Conduct of a Pilot Study, Ben Heaven; Chapter 3 From
Dirty Data to Credible Scientific Evidence: Some Practices Used to Clean
Data in Large Randomised Clinical Trials, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson; Part II
Framing Collective Interpretation; Chapter 4 Addressing the Commercial
Context: The Collective Critique of Clinical Trials, Catherine Will;
Chapter 5 When are Trials Not Enough? Clinical Versus Cost-effectiveness in
the Controversy Over Access to Dementia Drugs in the NHS, Tiago Moreira;
Part III Testing the Limits for Policy; Chapter 6 Comparing Artificial
Groups: On the History and Assumptions of the Randomised Controlled Trial,
Trudy Dehue; Chapter 7 Pragmatic Fact-making: Contracts and Contexts in the
UK and the Gambia, Ann Kelly; Chapter 8 Trial, Trial, Trial Again:
Reconstructing the Gold Standard in the Science of Prostate Cancer
Detection, Alex Faulkner; Chapter 10 Conclusion: So What?, Tiago Moreira,
Catherine Will;