ISBN:
9780415334815
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (288 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Parallel Title:
Print version The Risks of Medical Innovation : Risk Perception and Assessment in Historical Context
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Presenting a new way of thinking about the risks of medical innovation, this volume considers the issues from a social historical perspective, and studies specific cases in their respective contexts
Description / Table of Contents:
The Risks of Medical Innovation Risk perception and assessment in historical context; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Risk and medical innovation: a historical perspective; 2 To assess and to improve: practitioners' approaches to doubts linked with medical innovations 1720-1920; 3 Anaesthesia and the evaluation of surgical risk in mid-nineteenth-century Britain; 4 Redemption, danger and risk: the history of anti-bacterial chemotherapy and the transformation of tuberculin
Description / Table of Contents:
5 "As safe as milk or sugar water": perceptions of the risks and benefits of the BCG vaccine in the 1920s and 1930s in France and Germany6 From danger to risk: the perception and regulation of X-rays in Switzerland, 1896-1970; 7 The population as patient: Alice Stewart and the controversy over low-level radiation in the 1950s; 8 To treat or not to treat: drug research and the changing nature of essential hypertension; 9 Hormones at risk: cancer and the medical uses of industrially-produced sex steroids in Germany, 1930-1960
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Risk assessment and medical authority in operative fracture care in the 1960s and 1970s11 Assessing the risk and safety of the pill: maternal mortality and the pill; 12 Addressing uncertainties: the conceptualization of brain death in Switzerland 1960-2000; 13 Risk on trial: the interaction of innovation and risk in cancer clinical trials ; 14 BioRisk: interleukin-2 from laboratory to market in the United States and Germany; 15 The redemption of Thalidomide: standardizing the risk of birth defects; Name Index; Subject Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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