The introduction sets out two central ideas around which this collection of articles on hospital
ethnography has been organised. The first is that hospitals are not identical clones of a …

Open-label placebos (OLP)—placebo pills honestly prescribed—have challenged the notion
that placebos require either deception or concealment to evoke salubrious benefits. This …

Written by Michael D. Fetters, one of the leading scholars in the field and co-editor of the
Journal of Mixed Methods Research, The Mixed Methods Research Workbook: Activities for …

Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to
biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and …

Between 1942 and 1952, some of Canada's leading nutrition experts, in cooperation with
various federal departments, conducted an unprecedented series of nutritional studies of …

Modern transparency dates to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s—well before the Internet.
Michael Schudson shows how the “right to know” has defined a new era for democracy …

Knowledge Translation in Health Care is a practical introduction to knowledge translation for
everyone working and learning within health policy and funding agencies, and as …

Why has autonomy been a leading idea in philosophical writing on bioethics, and why has
trust been marginal? In this important book, Onora O'Neill suggests that the conceptions of …

Few things make people react more strongly to the changes going on in health care than the
word standardization. Critics shudder at the mindless sameness of standards, while …

This book is the first broad history of the growing field of bioethics. Covering the period 1947-
1987, it examines the origin and evolution of the debates over human experimentation …