Progress of Experiment - Science and Therapeutic Reform in the United States, 1900-1990

Klappentext Explores the origins of contemporary drug regulation and the modern clinical trial. Zusammenfassung This book explores the origins of our contemporary system of drug regulation and of the modern clinical trial. Harry Marks looks at the science and politics of drug evaluation and explores the influence of academic ideals on governmental drug regulation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Of Institutions and Character: The Era of Organisational Reform: 1. A rational therapeutics; 2. Memories of underdevelopment: therapeutic research in the US 1900-1935; 3. Playing it safe: the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938; 4. War and Peace; Part II. Of Statistics and Institutions, or the Triumph of Method: 5. Managing chance; 6. You gotta have heart; 7. Anatomy of a controversy: the University Group Diabetes Program study; 8. The dreams of reason.

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• Authors: Harry M. Marks, Harry M. (The Johns Hopkins University) Marks
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.2000
• EAN: 9780521785617
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78561-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General