Control and the therapeutic trial : rhetoric and experimentation in Britain, 1918-48 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Series: | Wellcome series in the history of medicine Clio medica,
82 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=213805 |
Table of Contents:
- CONTROL AND THE THERAPEUTIC TRIAL; Contents; 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 Trials7. Conclusion: What's Controlled about the Controlled Trial?; Bibliography; Index.