The Resource Quantification and the quest for medical certainty
Quantification and the quest for medical certainty
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- Summary
- 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 of patients to either the experimental or control group, and the use of blind assessment so that the researchers do not know which patients are in either group. Even though it has been only within the past generation that the clinical trial has moved to the forefront of medical research, comparative statistics in a therapeutic context has a much longer history. From that history J
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 195 pages
- Contents
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- Ch. 1. Probable Knowledge in the Parisian Scientific and Medical Communities during the French Revolution
- Ch. 2. Louis's "Numerical Method" in Early-Nineteenth-Century Parisian Medicine: The Rhetoric of Quantification
- Ch. 3. Nineteenth-Century Critics of Gavarret's Probabilistic Approach
- Ch. 4. The Legacy of Louis and the Rise of Physiology Contrasting Visions of Medical "Objectivity"
- Ch. 5. The British Biometrical School and Bacteriology: The Creation of Major Greenwood as a Medical Statistician
- Ch. 6. The Birth of the Modern Clinical Trial: The Central Role of the Medical Research Council
- Ch. 7. A. Bradford Hill and the Rise of the Clinical Trial
- Isbn
- 9780691037943
- Label
- Quantification and the quest for medical certainty
- Title
- Quantification and the quest for medical certainty
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 of patients to either the experimental or control group, and the use of blind assessment so that the researchers do not know which patients are in either group. Even though it has been only within the past generation that the clinical trial has moved to the forefront of medical research, comparative statistics in a therapeutic context has a much longer history. From that history J
- Cataloging source
- UkLiU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Matthews, J. Rosser
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Clinical trials
- Medicine
- History of Medicine, Modern
- Clinical Trials
- Probability
- Label
- Quantification and the quest for medical certainty
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index
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- Contents
- Ch. 1. Probable Knowledge in the Parisian Scientific and Medical Communities during the French Revolution -- Ch. 2. Louis's "Numerical Method" in Early-Nineteenth-Century Parisian Medicine: The Rhetoric of Quantification -- Ch. 3. Nineteenth-Century Critics of Gavarret's Probabilistic Approach -- Ch. 4. The Legacy of Louis and the Rise of Physiology Contrasting Visions of Medical "Objectivity" -- Ch. 5. The British Biometrical School and Bacteriology: The Creation of Major Greenwood as a Medical Statistician -- Ch. 6. The Birth of the Modern Clinical Trial: The Central Role of the Medical Research Council -- Ch. 7. A. Bradford Hill and the Rise of the Clinical Trial
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- x, 195 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691037943
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Quantification and the quest for medical certainty
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Probable Knowledge in the Parisian Scientific and Medical Communities during the French Revolution -- Ch. 2. Louis's "Numerical Method" in Early-Nineteenth-Century Parisian Medicine: The Rhetoric of Quantification -- Ch. 3. Nineteenth-Century Critics of Gavarret's Probabilistic Approach -- Ch. 4. The Legacy of Louis and the Rise of Physiology Contrasting Visions of Medical "Objectivity" -- Ch. 5. The British Biometrical School and Bacteriology: The Creation of Major Greenwood as a Medical Statistician -- Ch. 6. The Birth of the Modern Clinical Trial: The Central Role of the Medical Research Council -- Ch. 7. A. Bradford Hill and the Rise of the Clinical Trial
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- x, 195 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691037943
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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