Equipoise, Knowledge and Ethics in Clinical Research and Practice

It is widely maintained that a clinical trial is ethical only if some form of equipoise between the treatments being compared obtains. To be in equipoise between two treatments A and B is to be cognitively indifferent between the statement ‘A is strictly more effective than B’ and its negation. It i...

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Main Author: Ashcroft, Richard (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1999
In: Bioethics
Year: 1999, Volume: 13, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 314-326
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