Cancer on Trial - Oncology As a New Style of Practice

Helps you explore how practitioners established a new style of practice, at the center of which lies the cancer clinical trial. Far from mere testing devices, this book features trials that have become full-fledged experiments that have redefined the practices of clinicians, statisticians, and biologists.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Peter Keating is professor of history at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Alberto Cambrosio is professor in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. Together, they are the authors of Exquisite Specificity and Biomedical Platforms.

Zusammenfassung

Helps you explore how practitioners established a new style of practice, at the center of which lies the cancer clinical trial. Far from mere testing devices, this book features trials that have become full-fledged experiments that have redefined the practices of clinicians, statisticians, and biologists.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alberto Cambrosio, Cambrosio Alberto, Peter Keating, Peter Cambrosio Keating
• Verlag: University Of Chicago Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 18.04.2014
• EAN: 9780226143040
• ISBN: 978-0-226-14304-0
• Seiten: 480
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Serie: emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Klinische Fächer; MEDICAL / Research, Oncology, MEDICAL / Oncology / General, Clinical Trials