The risks of medical innovation : risk perception and assessment in historical context /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. |
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| Description: | xiii, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 21 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5926614 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1. Risk and medical innovation: a historial perspective
- 2. To assess and to improve: practitioners' approaches to doubts linked with medical innovations 1720-1920
- 3. Anaesthesia and the evaluation of surgical risk in mid-nineteenth-century Britain
- 4. Redemption, danger and risk: the history of anti-bacterial chemotherapy and the transformation of tuberculin
- 5. "As safe as milk or sugar water": perceptions of the risks and benefits of the BCG vaccine in the 1920s and 1930s in France and Germany
- 6. From danger to risk: the perception and regulation of X-rays in Switzerland, 1896-1970
- 7. The population as patient: Alice Stewart and the controversy over low-level radiation in the 1950s
- 8. To treat or not to treat: drug research and the changing nature of essential hypertension
- 9. Hormones at risk: cancer and the medical uses of industrially-produced sex steroids in Germany, 1930-1960
- 10. Risk assessment and medical authority in operative fracture care in the 1960s and 1970s
- 11. Assessing the risk and safety of the pill: maternal mortality and the pill
- 12. Addressing uncertainties: the conceptualization of brain death in Switzerland 1960-2000
- 13. Risk on trial: the interaction of innovation and risk in cancer clinical trials
- 14. BioRisk: interleukin-2 from laboratory to market in the United States and Germany
- 15. The redemption of Thalidomide: standardizing the risk of birth defects
- Name index
- Subject index
