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001 2005002734
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008 050201s2006 enka b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aRA418.5.M4$bR55 2006
082 00 $a610$222
245 04 $aThe risks of medical innovation :$brisk perception and assessment in historical context /$cedited by Thomas Schlich and Ulrich Tröhler.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2006.
300 $axiii, 291 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aRoutledge studies in the social history of medicine ;$v21
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aRisk 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.
650 0 $aMedical innovations.
650 0 $aHealth risk assessment.
650 0 $aRisk perception.
650 12 $aBiomedical Technology$xtrends.
650 22 $aHistory of Medicine.
650 22 $aHistory, Modern 1601-.
650 22 $aPublic Opinion.
650 22 $aRisk Assessment$xtrends.
650 22 $aTechnology Assessment, Biomedical$xtrends.
700 1 $aSchlich, Thomas.
700 1 $aTröhler, Ulrich,$d1943-
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip057/2005002734.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0651/2005002734-d.html