Buch, Englisch, Band 82, 221 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 517 g
Reihe: Clio Medica
Rhetoric and Experimentation in Britain, 1918-48
Buch, Englisch, Band 82, 221 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 517 g
Reihe: Clio Medica
ISBN: 978-90-420-2273-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
Control and the Therapeutic Trial examines the development of the RCT from the eclectic collection of methodologies available to practitioners in the early-twentieth century. In particular, it explores the British Medical Research Council’s (MRC) exploitation of the term ‘controlled’ to help establish its own ‘controlled trials’ as the gold standard for therapeutic evaluation, and, ultimately, the MRC itself as the proper authority to adjudicate on therapeutic efficacy. This rhetorical power still clings, and is exploited today.
Control and the Therapeutic Trial will be of interest not only to historians of twentieth-century medicine and practising clinicians who take therapeutic decisions, but to anyone who seeks a broader insight into the forces that shaped, and control, the modern controlled trial.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
Weitere Infos & Material
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 Trials
7 Conclusion: What’s Controlled about the Controlled Trial?
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Index