Science on Trial
The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case
Seiten
1998
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-31672-8 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-31672-8 (ISBN)
"An accessible, passionate indictment of the ignorance, opportunism and social indifference that enriched lawyers and a few plaintiffs, though the available scientific evidence was against them." —New York Times Book Review, Notable Books of 1996
In the early 1990s, sympathetic juries awarded huge damages to women claiming injury from silicone breast implants, leading to a $4.25 billion class-action settlement that still wasn’t large enough to cover all the claims. Shockingly, rigorous scientific studies of breast implants have now shown that there is no significant link between breast implants and disease. Why were the courts and the public so certain that breast implants were dangerous when medical researchers were not? The answer to this question reveals important differences in the way science, the law, and the public regard evidence—and not just in the breast implant controversy.
In the early 1990s, sympathetic juries awarded huge damages to women claiming injury from silicone breast implants, leading to a $4.25 billion class-action settlement that still wasn’t large enough to cover all the claims. Shockingly, rigorous scientific studies of breast implants have now shown that there is no significant link between breast implants and disease. Why were the courts and the public so certain that breast implants were dangerous when medical researchers were not? The answer to this question reveals important differences in the way science, the law, and the public regard evidence—and not just in the breast implant controversy.
Marcia Angell is the executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.5.1998 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 211 mm |
| Gewicht | 338 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
| Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Ästhetische und Plastische Chirurgie | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-393-31672-6 / 0393316726 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-31672-8 / 9780393316728 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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