Evidence-based medicine and the search for a science of clinical care /
Jeanne Daly.
- Berkeley : New York : University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund, c2005.
- xv, 275 p. ; 24 cm.
- California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 12 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-264) and index.
Introduction : evidence, science, and certainty -- Clinical epidemiology: the intellectual heritage -- The discipline of clinical epidemiology -- The rise of evidence-based medicine -- An appraisal, with critique -- The British intellectual heritage -- The Cochrane collaboration -- The Cochrane collaboration in South Africa -- Achievements and limitations -- The continuing search for a science of clinical care.