Dicing with Death. Chance, Risk and Health
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Author(s): S. Senn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521540232
Format: softback
251pp
Price: £14.95
Review Date: 28 October 2003
Review: This book looks at the role of medical statistics in scientific medicine, based not only on evidential data, but also on the history of the subject. Stephen Senn illustrates how statistics influences many decisions about medical care, from allocating resources to health, to determining which drugs to license, to cause-and-effect in relation to disease. He looks at clinical trials and the developments of medicines, life tables, vaccines and their real or perceived risks, smoking and lung cancer, and the power of prayer.