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The risks of medical innovation : risk perception and assessment in historical context / edited by Thomas Schlich and Ulrich Tröhler.
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English
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London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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xiii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Medical innovations
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Health risk assessment
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Risk perception
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Schlich, Thomas
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Tröhler, Ulrich, 1943-
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Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 21.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Risk and medical innovation : a historical perspective / Thomas Schlich
To assess and to improve : practitioners' approaches to doubts linked with medical innovations 1720-1920 / Ulrich Tröhler
Anaesthesia and the evaluation of surgical risk in mid-nineteenth century Britain / Ian Burney
Redemption, danger and risk : the history of anti-bacterial chemotherapy and the transformation of tuberculin / Christoph Gradmann
"As safe as milk or sugar water" : perceptions of risks and benefits of the BCG vaccine in the 1920s and 1930s in France and Germany / Christian Bonah
From danger to risk : the perception and regulation of X-rays in Switzerland 1896-1970 / Monika Dommann
The population as patient : Alice Stewart and the controversy over low-level radiation in the 1950s / Sarah Dry
To treat or not to treat : drug research and the changing nature of essential hypertension / Carsten Timmermann
Hormones at risk : cancer and the medical uses of industrially-produced sex steroids in Germany, 1930-1960 / Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Risk assessment and medical authority in operative fracture care in the 1960 and 1970s / Thomas Schlich
Assessing the risk and safety of the pill : maternal mortality and the pill / Lara Marks
Addressing uncertainties : the conceptualisation of brain death in Switzerland 1960-2000 / Silke Bellanger and Aline Steinbrecher
Risk on trial : the interaction of innovation and risk in cancer clinical trials / Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio
BioRisk : interleukin-2 from laboratory to market in the United States and Germany / Arthur Daemmrich
The redemption of Thalidomide : standardizing the risk of birth defects / Stefan Timmermans and Valerie Leiter.
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ISBN
0415334810 (hardback)
LCCN
2005002734
OCLC
57579184
Serial Item and Contribution Identifier
9780415334815 (hardback)
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