Medical proofs, social experiments : clinical trials in shifting contexts /: clinical trials in shifting contexts. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Catherine Will, Tiago Moreira.
• Other Names: Will, Catherine; Moreira, Tiago
• Contents: Reconciling research with medical care in RCTs / Stefan Timmermans -- Bridging the ontological divide: different social worlds in the conduct of a pilot study / Ben Heaven -- From dirty data to credible scientific evidence: some practices used to clean data in large randomised clinical trials / Claes-Fredrik Helgesson -- Addressing the commercial context: the collective critique of clinical trials / Catherine M. Will -- When are trials not enough?: clinical versus cost-effectiveness in the controversy over access to dementia drugs in the NHS / Tiago Moreira -- Comparing artificial groups: on the history and assumptions of the randomised controlled trial / Trudy Dehue -- Pragmatic fact-making: contracts and contexts in the UK and the Gambia / Ann Kelly -- Trial, trial, trial again: reconstructing the gold standard in the science of prostate cancer detection / Alex Faulkner.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (198 pages)
• Subjects: 615.5072/4; Clinical trials; Drug approval; Clinical Trials as Topic; Drug Approval -- methods
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317098317; 1317098315
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.