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Author:   Catherine Will ,  Tiago Moreira
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9780754679288

ISBN 10:   0754679284
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   28 December 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, Catherine Will, Tiago Moreira; Part I The Practices of Research; Chapter 1a Reconciling Research with Medical Care in RCTs, Stefan Timmermans; Chapter 2 Bridging the Ontological Divide: Different Social Worlds in the Conduct of a Pilot Study, Ben Heaven; Chapter 3 From Dirty Data to Credible Scientific Evidence: Some Practices Used to Clean Data in Large Randomised Clinical Trials, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson; Part II Framing Collective Interpretation; Chapter 4 Addressing the Commercial Context: The Collective Critique of Clinical Trials, Catherine Will; Chapter 5 When are Trials Not Enough? Clinical Versus Cost-effectiveness in the Controversy Over Access to Dementia Drugs in the NHS, Tiago Moreira; Part III Testing the Limits for Policy; Chapter 6 Comparing Artificial Groups: On the History and Assumptions of the Randomised Controlled Trial, Trudy Dehue; Chapter 7 Pragmatic Fact-making: Contracts and Contexts in the UK and the Gambia, Ann Kelly; Chapter 8 Trial, Trial, Trial Again: Reconstructing the Gold Standard in the Science of Prostate Cancer Detection, Alex Faulkner; Chapter 10 Conclusion: So What?, Tiago Moreira, Catherine Will;

Reviews

'... an excellent book that should and will find readership not only as a seminal collection on clinical trials but also as a locus for broader debate in the sociology of health and illness, political sociology, and science and technology studies.' Network, the Magazine of the British Sociological Association

Author Information

Catherine Will lectures in Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK and Tiago Moreira lectures in the School of Social Sciences at Durham University, UK Catherine Will, Tiago Moreira, Stefan Timmermans, Ben Heaven, Claes-Frederick Helgesson, Trudy Dehue, Ann Kelly, Alex Faulkner.

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