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Science On Trial – The Clash of Medical Evidence & the Law in the Breast Implant Case: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case - Hardcover
In 1992 silicone-filled breast implants were banned in America in response to concerns that they caused auto-immune and connective tissue disease. The ban triggered a torrent of litigation which proved to be unwarranted. This book reveals important differences in the way science, the law and the public regard evidence. The author maintains that, as we become ever more dependent on science and technology, dangerous misconceptions about scientific evidence are becoming an increasing danger to the public good, with consequences which extend far beyond the breast implant controversy.
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[A] sober and rigorous examination of the controversy over silicone breast implants . . . an important statement, not just about silicone implants, but about other matters at the intersection of law, science, and opinion. [Dr. Angell's] book is . . . a warning that rationality, like much else in the fragile porcelain of society, can be weakened by lack of vigilance.
An indispensable guide to the breast implant madness--litigation that will forever stand as a monument to the inability of our civil justice system to sort out latter-day Ptolemies from Galileos.
Marcia Angell's outstanding book explains clearly and fairly the combination of greed, fear, ignorance, junk science, and media hype that created this national litigation nightmare. Everyone interested in the tort system, science, and medicine should heed the lessons that Dr. Angell teaches.--Shirley M. Hufstedler, former U.S. Secretary of Education
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An indispensable guide to the breast implant madness--litigation that will forever stand as a monument to the inability of our civil justice system to sort out latter-day Ptolemies from Galileos.
Marcia Angell's outstanding book explains clearly and fairly the combination of greed, fear, ignorance, junk science, and media hype that created this national litigation nightmare. Everyone interested in the tort system, science, and medicine should heed the lessons that Dr. Angell teaches.--Shirley M. Hufstedler, former U.S. Secretary of Education
Marcia Angell is the executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0393039730
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