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• Winner of BMA 1999 award for best book in the basis of medicine category.

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Author:   the late William A. Silverman (formerly Professor of Paediatrics, formerly Professor of Paediatrics, Columbia University) ,  David L. Sackett
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.403kg
ISBN:  

9780192630889

ISBN 10:   0192630881
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   15 April 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by David L. Sackett Preface List of Respondents Introduction 1: Selective ethics 2: Does a difference make a difference 3: Prescription for disaster 4: Therapeutic mystique 5: Humane limits 6: Intruding in private tragedies 7: The glut of information 8: Betting on specified horses 9: Begin with 'if...' 10: Archie's scepticism 11: Arbitrary vs discretionary decisions 12: Bioengineering 13: '...disavowing the tree' 14: Diffusing responsibility Weil's reply 15: Hawthorne effects 16: Power plays 17: Unbridled enthusiasm 18: Caring and curing 19: On the edge 20: Informing and consenting Weil's reply 21: Lifesavers 22: Belief and disbelief 23: Preferences 24: Bradford Hill's doubts 25: More-informative abstracts 26: Pain control in neonates 27: Miraculous cures 28: Observer bias 29: The gamekeeper's brouhaha 30: Champing at the bit 31: Piecemeal skirmishes 32: Resolution of dilemma's Sinclair and Fowlie's reply Watts and Saigal's reply 33: 'Fixing' human reproduction 34: Justice defined as fairness 35: 'Methods-based' reviews 36: Non-replication of the replicable 37: Who defines 'futility' Goldworth and Benitz's reply 38: Fitting targets in holes 39: Medical 'manners' on trial 40: Sanction of whose beliefs and values? 41: Mindness existence 42: Interventions on an unprecedented scale 43: Preoccupation with 'autonomy' 44: A 'win' in medical Russian Roulette Lantos' reply Citations Bibliography Index

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This compilation...deserves the widest possible readership within and beyond the medical community. As a pioneer in neonatology and controlled clinical trials, the author brings unparalleled experience to these pieces....The essays are pithy, scholarly, lucid, iconoclastic, and suffused with the author's humanity and humor. --Rob Schechter, Amazon<br> [Silverman] encourages us to respond by questioning the evidence that informs our decisions, by distinguishing between the values we need when acquiring knowledge and those we need when applying it, and by recognizing that all medical previleges are granted to us by our patients. This book...offers succour to those of us who fear that most of the world's troubles are caused by people who have the courage of their convictions and yearn to hear from those like Silverman who have the courage of their doubts. --British Journal of General Practice<br> This is an extraordinary book....[these] essays should be savored, dipped into and returned to rather than read consecutively from cover to cover, thought about, argued with, and reread. --The New England Journal of Medicine<br> We can only be grateful that the distilled wisdom of a great man is at least in part encapsulated within 200 pages of highly readable prose....a unique collation of topics that are always thought provoking, usually challenging and sometimes downright aggravating. --Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology<br> Where's the evidence? is a collection of 45 short, thoughtful and challenging essays in which Silverman continues to hold up a mirror to medical practitioners. --Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London<br>

<br> This compilation...deserves the widest possible readership within and beyond the medical community. As a pioneer in neonatology and controlled clinical trials, the author brings unparalleled experience to these pieces....The essays are pithy, scholarly, lucid, iconoclastic, and suffused with the author's humanity and humor. --Rob Schechter, Amazon<p><br> [Silverman] encourages us to respond by questioning the evidence that informs our decisions, by distinguishing between the values we need when acquiring knowledge and those we need when applying it, and by recognizing that all medical previleges are granted to us by our patients. This book...offers succour to those of us who fear that most of the world's troubles are caused by people who have the courage of their convictions and yearn to hear from those like Silverman who have the courage of their doubts. --British Journal of General Practice<p><br> This is an extraordinary book....[these] essays should be savored, dipped into and returned to rather than read consecutively from cover to cover, thought about, argued with, and reread. --The New England Journal of Medicine<p><br> We can only be grateful that the distilled wisdom of a great man is at least in part encapsulated within 200 pages of highly readable prose....a unique collation of topics that are always thought provoking, usually challenging and sometimes downright aggravating. --Paediatric and PerinatalEpidemiology<p><br> Where's the evidence? is a collection of 45 short, thoughtful and challenging essays in which Silverman continues to hold up a mirror to medical practitioners. --Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London<p><br>

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