Cancer on Trial
Oncology as a New Style of Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9089154 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerald Kutcher, Gerald J Kutcher (Binghamton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 109-111 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5045 • E-ISSN: 1468-4373 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jhmas/jrv027 |
| OpenAlex | W2215128802 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
At the beginning of Cancer on Trial, the authors remark that rather than providing a global picture of clinical trials, they have “sought more modestly to describe the evolving configurations of institutional, organizational, conceptual, human, and material resources that, through a remarkably dense network, have produced the now-taken-for-granted pillars of modern oncology: cancer clinical trials, treatment protocols, and the like” (9). This book is anything but a modest production—rather it covers the above issues and much more through a detailed rendering of the changing character of clinical trials from the early post-WWII period to the present. Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio have produced a major, demanding, and well-written piece of scholarship that traces the changing practices and ideologies of post-war clinical trials. Cancer on Trial is divided into three major sections. The first addresses the emergence of clinical trials from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s; the second covers the epistemology and practice of large-scale, multi-center cooperative clinical trials through the late 1980s; the third looks at the important role of molecular biology and the emergence of targeted therapy trials from the early 1990s onwards. Each section begins with a detailed discussion of an iconic clinical trial. In addition, there are two interludes: the first contains a brief overview of clinical trial statistics and the second covers the basics of molecular biology and oncogenes.
Cancer · Clinical Practice · Clinical trial · Family medicine · Political science · Scholarship · Biotechnology and Related Fields · Historical Medical Research and Treatments · Internal Medicine · Law · Medicine · Oncology · Science, Research, and Medicine
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |