Science on Trial :The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case

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Science on Trial

Science on Trial :The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case

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In the early 1990s, sympathetic juries awarded huge damages to women claiming injury from silicone breast implants, leading to a $4.25 billion class-action settlement that still wasn’t large enough to cover all the claims. Shockingly, rigorous scientific studies of breast implants have now shown that there is no significant link between breast implants and disease. Why were the courts and the public so certain that breast implants were dangerous when medical researchers were not? The answer to this question reveals important differences in the way science, the law, and the public regard evidence—and not just in the breast implant controversy.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780393316728
ISBN10 0393316726
Number Of Pages 270
Item Weight 338 g
Product Dimensions 140 x 211 x 18 mm
Publisher / Reseller WW Norton & Co
Format paperback
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"[A] sober and rigorous examination of the controversy over silicone breast implants . . . an important statement, not just about silicone implants, but about other matters at the intersection of law, science, and opinion. [Dr. Angell’s] book is . . . a warning that rationality, like much else in the fragile porcelain of society, can be weakened by lack of vigilance." -- New York Times
"An indispensable guide to the breast implant madness—litigation that will forever stand as a monument to the inability of our civil justice system to sort out latter-day Ptolemies from Galileos." -- Wall Street Journal
"Marcia Angell's outstanding book explains clearly and fairly the combination of greed, fear, ignorance, junk science, and media hype that created this national litigation nightmare. Everyone interested in the tort system, science, and medicine should heed the lessons that Dr. Angell teaches." -- Shirley M. Hufstedler, former U.S. Secretary of Education

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Author's Bio

Marcia Angell is the executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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