Where's the evidence? : debates in modern medicine / William A. Silverman ; with a foreword by David L. Sackett.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : medicine's dilemma at the end of the twentieth century
- 1. Selective ethics
- 2. Does a difference make a difference?
- 3. Prescription for disaster
- 4. Therapeutic mystique
- 5. Humane limits
- 6. Intruding in private tragedies
- 7. The glut of information
- 8. Betting on specified horses
- 9. Begin with 'if ... '
- 10. Archie's scepticism
- 11. Arbitrary vs discretionary decisions
- 12. Bioengineering
- 13. ' ... disavowing the tree'
- 14. Diffusing responsibility : Weil's reply
- 15. Hawthorne effects
- 16. Power plays
- 17. Unbridled enthusiasm
- 18. Caring and curing
- 19. On the edge
- 20. Informing and consenting : Weil's reply
- 21. Lifesavers
- 22. Belief and disbelief
- 23. Preferences
- 24. Bradford Hill's doubts
- 25. More informative abstracts
- 26. Pain control in neonates
- 27. Miraculous cures
- 28. Observer bias
- 29. The gatekeeper's brouhaha
- 30. Creatures of bounded rationality
- 31. Champing at the bit
- 32. Piecemeal skirmishes
- 33. Resolution of insoluble dilemmas : Sinclair and Fowlie's reply ; Watts and Saigal's reply
- 34. 'Fixing' human reproduction
- 35. Justice defined as fairness
- 36. 'Methods-based' reviews
- 37. Non-replication of the replicable
- 38. Who defines 'futility'? : Goldworth and Benitz's reply
- 39. Fitting targets to holes
- 40. Medical 'manners' on trial
- 41. Sanction of whose beliefs and values?
- 42. Mindless existence
- 43. Interventions on an unprecedented scale
- 44. Preoccupation with 'autonomy'
- 45. A 'win' in medical Russian roulette.