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Cancer on Trial
Peter Keating
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Description for Cancer on Trial
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 480 pages, 25 halftones, 25 line drawings. BIC Classification: MBGR1; MJCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 742.
In Cancer on Trial Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio explore how practitioners established a new style of practice, at the center of which lies the cancer clinical trial. Far from mere testing devices, these trials have become full-fledged experiments that have redefined the practices of clinicians, statisticians, and biologists. Keating and Cambrosio investigate these trials and how they have changed since the 1960s, all the while demonstrating their significant impact on the progression of oncology. A novel look at the institution of clinical cancer research and therapy, this book will be warmly welcomed by historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of science ... Read more
In Cancer on Trial Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio explore how practitioners established a new style of practice, at the center of which lies the cancer clinical trial. Far from mere testing devices, these trials have become full-fledged experiments that have redefined the practices of clinicians, statisticians, and biologists. Keating and Cambrosio investigate these trials and how they have changed since the 1960s, all the while demonstrating their significant impact on the progression of oncology. A novel look at the institution of clinical cancer research and therapy, this book will be warmly welcomed by historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of science ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226143040
SKU
V9780226143040
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About Peter Keating
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.
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