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Medical Proofs, Social Experiments - Clinical Trials in Shifting Contexts (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Medical Proofs, Social Experiments - Clinical Trials in Shifting Contexts (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Clinical trials have become key technologies for decision making in
the contemporary world. Their results shape medical practice and
determine priorities across health care systems, but the work that
goes into producing credible data is often hidden. Medical Proofs,
Social Experiments draws upon detailed case studies to argue that
to understand their value, we need to pay more attention to the
contexts for these modern medical experiments, recovering the
diverse ways in which they involve doctors, patients and the
public, the local practices that contribute to their completion,
and the complex negotiation of their results in professional and
statutory institutions. Presenting research from the UK, USA,
Sweden and The Netherlands, the ethnographic perspective adopted by
the authors provides a space to explore the investments of
different state, market, professional and other actors in
particular forms of evaluation, and the ways in which trial
methodologies may be re-designed or re-imagined to satisfy social
and political expectations. As such, this volume will be of
interest to those working in the fields of science and technology
studies, the sociology and anthropology of medicine and researchers
of policy and organisation in health care.
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