Selling Science by Stephen E Mawdsley
Drawing on oral history interviews, medical journals, newspapers, meeting minutes, and private institutional records, Selling Science sheds light on the ethics of scientific conduct, and on the power of marketing to shape public opinion about medical experimentation.-
Lady Lushes
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Talking Therapy
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Toxic Exposures
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Bishops and Bodies
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Managing Madness in the Community
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Beyond Health, Beyond Choice
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The Vulnerable Empowered Woman
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Transplanting Care
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Fit to Be Tied
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The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World
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The Business of Private Medical Practice
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Smoking Privileges
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Broadcasting Birth Control
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Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age
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Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat
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Patients As Policy Actors
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Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers
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Mapping "Race"
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Testing Baby
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Classrooms and Clinics
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Tainted Earth
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Comrades in Health
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The Morning After
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Just Don't Get Sick
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When Roe Fell
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The Nursing Clio Reader
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On the Frontlines of Crisis
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War and Disease
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Persisting Pandemics
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From Pink to Green
"Drawing on oral history interviews, medical journals, newspapers, meeting minutes, and private institutional records, Mawdsley reveals the intertwined social, political, ideological, and institutional actors involved in the construction of public consent for experimental medical research in the Cold War era.. Mawdsley's presentation of the untold case study of GG trials in the 1950s is an important contribution to scholarship focused on the sociological and political constructions of public consent and scientific success." (Canadian Bulletin of Medical History) "Historians of science, scholars of science and technology studies and historians of medicine and public health will benefit greatly from this new addition to the polio story."
(Social History of Medicine) "Mawdsley's book is a cautionary tale and leaves readers to consider the provocative assertion that 'the appearance of progress mattered.'" (Choice) "Mawdsley uses the enthusiasm for Gamma Globulin and the ultimate clinical trial as a vehicle to explore more broadly mid-twentieth-century attitudes towards risk, scientific transparency, double-blind clinical trials, and the power of fundraising and marketing over science. Selling Science is well-written, clearly argued, and extensively researched." - Daniel J. Wilson (author of Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors) "Mawdsley tells the riveting and forgotten history of a massive human experiment, conducted in the hopes of preventing polio. It provides a sober reminder of the limits of research ethics and scientific precaution in the face of a dread disease." - Angela Creager (author of Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine) "An excellent new book." (Bulletin of the History of Medicine) "In Selling Science Stephen Mawdsley approaches polio from a different angle, following the history of the purified blood fraction gamma globulin, an antibody. As Mawdsley compellingly shows, the gamma globulin field trials marked the opening of a new chapter in the social history of biomedicine, one in which the methods of persuasion joined the methods of medicine in the structuring of clinical trials." (The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)
(Social History of Medicine) "Mawdsley's book is a cautionary tale and leaves readers to consider the provocative assertion that 'the appearance of progress mattered.'" (Choice) "Mawdsley uses the enthusiasm for Gamma Globulin and the ultimate clinical trial as a vehicle to explore more broadly mid-twentieth-century attitudes towards risk, scientific transparency, double-blind clinical trials, and the power of fundraising and marketing over science. Selling Science is well-written, clearly argued, and extensively researched." - Daniel J. Wilson (author of Living with Polio: The Epidemic and Its Survivors) "Mawdsley tells the riveting and forgotten history of a massive human experiment, conducted in the hopes of preventing polio. It provides a sober reminder of the limits of research ethics and scientific precaution in the face of a dread disease." - Angela Creager (author of Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine) "An excellent new book." (Bulletin of the History of Medicine) "In Selling Science Stephen Mawdsley approaches polio from a different angle, following the history of the purified blood fraction gamma globulin, an antibody. As Mawdsley compellingly shows, the gamma globulin field trials marked the opening of a new chapter in the social history of biomedicine, one in which the methods of persuasion joined the methods of medicine in the structuring of clinical trials." (The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)
STEPHEN E. MAWDSLEY is the Isaac Newton–Ann Johnston Research Fellow at Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge in England.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780813574394 |
| ISBN 10 | 0813574390 |
| Title | Selling Science |
| Author | Stephen E Mawdsley |
| Series | Critical Issues In Health And Medicine |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
| Year published | 2016-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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