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... and interventions become standard, necessary, logical, and rational. Analysis of those innovations shows which patients need them and what we come to want from them. Questions about how to measure successful treatment and what constitutes therapeutic benefit loom large here, and each patient’s story illustrates...

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... This chapter shows how evidence from clinical trials emerges, how those findings determine insurance reimbursement patterns and then treatment standards, and how those organize the work of doctors. It ends with a look at the specter that hangs over these engines of innovation and evidence...

... This chapter shows how evidence from clinical trials emerges, how those findings determine insurance reimbursement patterns and then treatment standards, and how those organize the work of doctors. It ends with a look at the specter that hangs over these engines of innovation and evidence: the fact...

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... The phrase ordinary medicine reflects the hidden chain of health care drivers among science, politics, industry, insurance, and ethics that organizes and drives our health care system. The chain and the ethical field that supports it are the mechanisms by which treatment standards become social...

.... Medicare policies are instrumental to the ways seniors experience old age and dying and everyone else experiences what to need, want, and expect from medicine. standards of care treatment practices ethical choices aging society sociology of dying ...

.... The problem had been known since the sixteenth century, but industry experts consistently downplayed the damage by manufacturing ignorance through timeworn strategies of residual governance. They selectively and misleadingly invoked international norms and regulatory standards for radiation exposure...

... This chapter observes the early signs of the process of Yugoslavia’s tragic destruction in the late 1980s and early 1990s through the loosening and dissolving of fixed ritualized and standardized forms of being and living in the Yugoslav People’s Army. The protective capacity of ritualized forms...

...Rupture, Continuity The notion that mass screening and treatment of HIV could effectively end the epidemic has generated enthusiasm in global health. The strategy of “treatment as prevention” (TasP) is being experimented with in population trials even as it is being adopted by physicians...

...—to reveal how technological innovations and interventions become standard, necessary, logical, and rational. Analysis of those innovations shows which patients need them and what we come to want from them. Questions about how to measure successful treatment and what constitutes therapeutic benefit loom...