Nomenclature, Methodology and Results of Clinical Trials in Acute Leukemias Workshop held June 19 and 20, 1972 at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.), France

Synopsis

Scientific and Ethical Discipline in Clinical Trials on Acute Leukemia G. MATHE Institut de Cancerologie ct d'Immunogenetique "', Hi'ipital Paul-Brousse "."", Villejuif/France Clinical research is still in an evolutionary stage. Although scientific technology was readily accepted and applied, scientific methodology has been accepted much more slowly and is very rarely properly applied. There are three reasons why this is so. First, medical ethics frequently limits the applicability of clinical research, for doctors have to be more than scientists. They must also remain moral philosophers, as they were before medicine became a science. Second, the heterogeneity of the material on which clinical researchers work in studying human diseases makes the application of scientific methodology difficult. Third, researchers must publish. This means that they must obtain publishable results, and too often this means results in accordance with established concepts, easily accepted by the editors of established journals, which are read by the establishment. It is the privilege of too many people to be able to accept "truth" and recipes from other people and confirm their truth and results. It is the mission of a very few others to accept nothing as "truth" and to consider no recipe ideal, either in concept or detail.

Book details

Edition:

1973

Series:

Recent Results in Cancer Research (Book 43)

Author:

G. Mathé, P. Pouillart and L. Schwarzenberg

ISBN:

9783642807763

Related ISBNs:

9783540064015

Publisher:

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Pages:

N/A

Reading age:

Not specified

Includes images:

Yes

Date of addition:

2022-07-14

Usage restrictions:

Copyright

Copyright date:

1973

Copyright by:

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Categories:

Medicine, Nonfiction