Neo-clinicians, Clinical Trials, and the Reorganization of Medical Research in Paris Hospitals after the Second World War: The Trajectory of Jean Bernard (2008)
Rigal, Christelle S. (Author)
Medical History
Volume: 52
Pages: 511--534
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
This paper focuses on the example of cancer research in France. There---as elsewhere---cancer research received impetus from public charities, benefited from increased government funding, and took a fresh turn after the Second World War, with new investigation into viruses, mutations, and immunological responses. However, while French achievements in risk factor epidemiology, which were largely due to the work of a small group of medical statisticians located within the INH, have been widely acknowledged, the French contribution to what was the most important change in cancer treatment, namely the rise of cancer chemotherapy in the 1960s and 1970s, is barely remembered.4 As a consequence, the existence of a clinical path toward controlled trials, and the quantification of bedside research that accompanied it, has tended to be overlooked in the case of France.
...MoreArticle 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).
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