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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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Marcia Angell is the executive editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Release date NZ
May 6th, 1998
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Pages
270
Dimensions
140x211x18
ISBN-13
9780393316728
Product ID
3155514

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