دانلود کتاب Medical Proofs, Social Experiments: Clinical Trials in Shifting Contexts

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Cover
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: Medical Proofs, Social Experiments: Clinical Trials in Shifting Contexts
Part I The Practices of Research
1 Reconciling Research with Medical Care in RCTs
2 Bridging the Ontological Divide: Different Social Worlds in the Conduct of a Pilot Study
3 From Dirty Data to Credible Scientific Evidence: Some Practices Used to Clean Data
Part II Framing Collective Interpretation
4 Addressing the Commercial Context: The Collective Critique of Clinical Trials
5 When are Trials Not Enough? Clinical Versus Cost-effectiveness in the Controversy Over Access
Part III Testing the Limits for Policy
6 Comparing Artificial Groups: On the History and Assumptions of the Randomised Controlled Trial
7 Pragmatic Fact-making: Contracts and Contexts in the UK and the Gambia
8 Trial, Trial, Trial Again: Reconstructing the Gold Standard in the Science of Prostate Cancer Detection
Conclusion: So What?
Bibliography
Index