Control and the therapeutic trial : rhetoric and experimentation in Britain, 1918-48 / / Martin Edwards.
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 evaluation from th...
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| Superior document: | Wellcome series in the history of medicine |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio Medica
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / Editors Control and the Therapeutic Trial
- Acknowledgements / Editors Control and the Therapeutic Trial
- Note on National Archives Source Material / Editors Control and the Therapeutic Trial
- Introduction / Editors Control and the Therapeutic Trial
- No Word is Innocent: The History and Rhetoric of Controlled Trials prior to 1948 / Editors Control and the Therapeutic Trial
- Good, Bad or Offal? The Rhetoric of Control in the Evaluation of Raw Pancreas Therapy / Editors Control and the Therapeutic Trial
- Bright Lights, Smoky Cities: Light Therapy in 1920's Britain / Editors Control and the Therapeutic Trial
- Control and the MRC’s Evaluation of Serum Therapy for Pneumonia, 1929–34 / Editors Control and the Therapeutic Trial
- Keeping it Controlled: The MRC’s Trials of Immunisation against Influenza / Editors Control and the Therapeutic Trial
- Whose Words are they Anyway? The Contrasting Strategies of Almroth Wright and Bradford Hill to Capture the Nomenclature of Controlled Trials / Editors Control and the Therapeutic Trial
- Conclusion: What’s Controlled about the Controlled Trial? / Editors Control and the Therapeutic Trial
- Bibliography / Editors Control and the Therapeutic Trial
- Index / Editors Control and the Therapeutic Trial.