The Mortality Effect: Counting the Dead in the Cancer Trial
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
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| ANO | 2010 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Public Culture |
| ISSN | 0899-2363 |
| E-ISSN | 1527-8018 |
| EDITORA | Publisher 15297 |
| DOI | 10.1215/08992363-2009-017 |
| CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
This essay analyzes the subject positioning demanded by randomized control trials (RCT). Taking seriously the fact that people in late-stage cancer treatments will die, even if one arm of the study receives a 'successful' treatment, Jain argues that the RCT framework carries a politics belied by its status as an objective research method.