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The Gold Standard: The Challenge Of Evidence-Based Medicine Paperback – Illustrated, 13 Jun. 2003
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- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTemple University Press
- Publication date13 Jun. 2003
- Dimensions15.24 x 2.29 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-101592131883
- ISBN-13978-1592131884
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"The Gold Standard is an intelligent and well-written analysis of crucial developments in biomedical practice over the past century. Timmermans and Berg provide us with a comprehensive study of the growing movement to standardize biomedicine, calling attention to the risks and benefits for doctors and patients alike. This unique and important book should attract interest among medical sociologists, science studies scholars, bioethicists, health policy analysts, and all those who care about the practice of medicine today."―Steven Epstein, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, and author of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
"This book sets the standard for the study of standardization in medicine. Focusing on evidence based medicine's meteoric rise and influence, Timmermans and Berg go beyond the professional rhetoric to examine its impact on the practice of medicine. Well-written and replete with sociological case studies, this book is must reading for social scientists, physicians and policy-makers."―Peter Conrad, Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences, Brandeis University
"It is rare to find a book that can serve both as an excellent introduction to its subject for people who have not previously given it much thought or study and also as an advanced reading for people who know the subject area well. Happily, The Gold Standard is such a book."―The Journal of Legal Medicine
"This eminently readable book is recommended to healthcare industry personnel and to policy makers who would be interested in a thoughtful study of the political, ethical, and functional aspects of the standardization of clinical behavior."―Quality Management in Health Care
"[T]his is a surprising work...its scope places it in the realm of monumental works like Paul Starr's Pulitzer-Prize winning [book]. This book is highly recommended...especially to those grappling with the challenge of creating consistently high-quality health care at a cost our nation can afford."―Inquiry
"...a highly readable and comprehensive book.... I can recommend this book to everyone who is interested in the subject."―Medicine Health Care and Philosophy: A European Journal (pdf)
"This book is helpful to physicians and healthcare executives who need to have a better understanding of the evolution and application of evidence-based medicine."―The Journal of the National Medical Association
From the Author
Marc Berg is Professor of Social Medical Sciences at the Erasmus University Medical Center in The Netherlands, and author of Rationalizing Medical Work: A Study of Decision Support Techniques and Medical Practices.
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- Publisher : Temple University Press; Illustrated edition (13 Jun. 2003)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1592131883
- ISBN-13 : 978-1592131884
- Dimensions : 15.24 x 2.29 x 22.86 cm
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About the author
Stefan Timmermans is a professor of sociology at UCLA. He has written books on medical technologies, research methods, and death and dying.
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 November 2012Stefan Timmermans and Marg Berg are social scientists dedicated to the study of medicine and especially the Evidence-Based Movement. Their book include a thorough literature review and present a nuance and balanced analysis of Evidence-based Medicine. Their work is based on empirical and concrete data. They include historical elements and a review about main critics adressed to EBM and a ... critic of the later. They aim for a constructive view and acknowlewdge the rational behind EBM even if today's situation is not very satisfactory (lack of consistency of the circulation of data, implementation gap...). If you're interrested in the evolution of medicine and are and the production of knowledge : this is one of the books you want to read.
Others essentials about EBM :
Broom, A. and J. Adams, Eds. (2012). Evidence Based Healthcare in Context : Critical Social Science Perspectives. Surrey, Ashgate.
Will, C. and T. Moreira, Eds. (2010). Medical Proofs, Social Experiments : Clinical Trials in Shifting Contexts. Burlington, Ashgate.