Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case
- ISBN-10
- 0393316726
- ISBN-13
- 9780393316728
- Category
- Breast implants
- Pages
- 276
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Marcia Angell
Description
A New York Times Notable Book of 1996 explores the different ways that medical science, the law, and the public weighed the evidence in the case of settlements awarded to women alleging illness caused by silicone breast implants. Reprint.
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Other editions
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- 1996-01-01
- 256 pages
- Paperback
- W. W. Norton
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