Tröhler, Ulrich (2013). Myth creation in textbook writing : the case of randomised controlled trials in medical research. Oxford Magazine(332), pp. 20-22. Oxford University Press
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Textbooks, across all disciplines, are prone to contain errors; grammatical, editorial, factual, or judgemental. The following is an account of one of the possible effects of such errors; how an error becomes entrenched and even exaggerated as later textbooks fail to correct the original error. The example considered here concerns the origins of one of the most basic and important tools of to day's medical research, the randomised controlled trial. It is the result of a systematic study of 26 British, French and German history of medicine textbooks since 1996.
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Newspaper or Magazine Article |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Tröhler, Ulrich |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 360 Social problems & social services |
ISSN: |
0268-1137 |
Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Doris Kopp Heim |
Date Deposited: |
06 Mar 2014 17:08 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:28 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.41393 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/41393 |
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