An edition of The risks of medical innovation
(2004)
The risks of medical innovation
risk perception and assessment in historical context
by Thomas Schlich and Ulrich Tröhler
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Health risk assessment, Risk Assessment, Biomedical Technology Assessment, Medical innovations, Modern History, Biomedical Technology, Trends, Public Opinion, History of Medicine, Risk perception, History, Modern 1601-, Medical sciences, Public opinion, Risk assessment, Technology assessment, Medicine, History, Health Status Indicators, History, Early Modern 1451-1600, Médecine, Innovations, Risques pour la santé, Évaluation, Perception du risque, Histoire, History of medicine, MEDICAL, Family & General Practice, Osteopathy, Holistic Medicine, HEALTH & FITNESS, Reference, Essays, Alternative Medicine, Holism
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Risk 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
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 / Alberto Cambrosio and Peter Keating
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.
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