Human Experimentation: A Guided Step Into the Unknown

by Wendy Ed. Silverman and William Silverman

Spectacular treatment disasters in recent years have made it clear that informal "let's-try-it-and-see" methods of testing new proposals are more risky now than ever before, and have led many to call for a halt to experimentation in clinical medicine. In this easy-tp-read, philosophical guide to human experimentation, William Silverman pleads for wider use of randomized clinical trials, citing many examples that show how careful trials can overturn...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192614991
• ISBN13: 9780192614995
• Release Date: August 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 250 Pages