Medical Proofs, Social Experiments

Catherine Will lectures in Sociology at the University of Sussex, UK. Tiago Moreira lectures in the School of Social Sciences at Durham University, UK.

Chapter 1 Introduction, Catherine Will, Tiago Moreira; Part I The Practices of Research; Chapter 1a Reconciling Research with Medical Care in RCTs, Stefan Timmermans; Chapter 2 Bridging the Ontological Divide: Different Social Worlds in the Conduct of a Pilot Study, Ben Heaven; Chapter 3 From Dirty Data to Credible Scientific Evidence: Some Practices Used to Clean Data in Large Randomised Clinical Trials, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson; Part II Framing Collective Interpretation; Chapter 4 Addressing the Commercial Context: The Collective Critique of Clinical Trials, Catherine Will; Chapter 5 When are Trials Not Enough? Clinical Versus Cost-effectiveness in the Controversy Over Access to Dementia Drugs in the NHS, Tiago Moreira; Part III Testing the Limits for Policy; Chapter 6 Comparing Artificial Groups: On the History and Assumptions of the Randomised Controlled Trial, Trudy Dehue; Chapter 7 Pragmatic Fact-making: Contracts and Contexts in the UK and the Gambia, Ann Kelly; Chapter 8 Trial, Trial, Trial Again: Reconstructing the Gold Standard in the Science of Prostate Cancer Detection, Alex Faulkner; Chapter 10 Conclusion: So What?, Tiago Moreira, Catherine Will;