The gold standard : the challenge of evidence-based medicine and standardization in health care /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Timmermans, Stefan, 1968-
Other Authors: Berg, Marc
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The politics of standardization
  • Standardization in medicine in the Twentieth Century : the emergence of the paper-based patient record
  • Standards at work : a dynamic transformation of medicine
  • From autonomy to accountability? Clinical practice guidelines and professionalization
  • Guidelines, professionals, and the production of objectivity in insurance medicine
  • Evidence-based medicine and learning to doctor
  • Standardizing risk : a case study of thalidomide