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Clinical Trials and the Reorganization of Medical Research in Post--Second World War Britain (2008)

Valier, Helen (Author)
Timmermann, Carsten (Author)

Medical History
Volume: 52
Pages: 493--510

Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: “The Era of Biomedicine: Science, Medicine, and Public Health in Britain and France after the Second World War”
Language: English

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Medicine Research Clinical trials Medicine and government 20th century, late Great Britain

The rise of biomedicine is usually associated with the transformation of biological and medical research in the United States following the vast expansion of funding, both private and public, in the years after the Second World War.1 Along with the other authors in this issue, we are interested in describing this phenomenon in national contexts other than the United States. Our discussion of biomedicine in Britain draws upon many of the same themes as our fellow authors and the existing literature on the US---the new role of the state as scientific entrepreneur; the relationship between experimental medicine and clinical services; and the growing institutionalization of associations between laboratory and clinic---to emphasize the clinical trial as a privileged form of therapeutic evaluation in the post-war years. In particular we are keen to stress that the randomized clinical, or controlled, trial (RCT) in Britain developed within a period of increasing centralization of state policy and planning for health services and medical research.

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Article Quirke, Viviane; Gaudillière, Jean-Paul (2008) The Era of Biomedicine: Science, Medicine, and Public Health in Britain and France after the Second World War. Medical History (p. 441). unapi

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