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哈里·柯林斯,英国卡迪夫大学杰出的社会学研究教授,知识、专业技能和科学研究中心主任,芝加哥大学出版社出版的《引力的影子:寻找引力波》一书的作者。
特雷弗·平奇,美国康奈尔大学社会学教授,科学和技术研究系主任。
A creature of Jewish mythology, a golem is an animated being made by man from clay and water who knows neither his own strength nor the extent of his ignorance. Like science and technology, the subjects of Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch's previous volumes, medicine is also a golem, and this "Dr. Golem" should not be blamed for its mistakes - they are, after all, our mistakes. The problem lies in its well-meaning clumsiness. "Dr. Golem" explores some of the mysteries and complexities of medicine while untangling the inherent conundrums of scientific research and highlighting its vagaries. Driven by the question of what to do in the face of the fallibility of medicine, "Dr. Golem" encourages a more inquisitive attitude toward the explanations and accounts offered by medical science. In eight chapters devoted to case studies of modern medicine, Collins and Pinch consider the prevalence of tonsillectomies, the placebo effect and randomized control trials, bogus doctors, CPR, the efficacy of Vitamin C in fighting cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, AIDS cures, and vaccination. They also examine the tension between the conflicting faces of medicine: medicine as science versus medicine as a source of succor; the interests of an individual versus the interests of a group; and the benefits in the short term versus success rates in the long term. Throughout, Collins and Pinch remind readers that medical science is an economic as well as a social consideration, encapsulated for the authors in the timeless struggle to balance the good health of the many - with vaccinations, for instance - with the good health of a few - those who have adverse reactions to the vaccine. In an age when the deaths of research subjects, the early termination of clinical trials, and the research guidelines for stem cells are front-page news, "Dr. Golem" is a timely analysis of the limitations of medicine that never loses sight of its strengths.
还记得这本书是高中毕业的那个暑假买的,还是狂妄的年纪,正准备进大学读基础科学。虽然一直以来都很喜欢医学,但那个时候觉得医学太无力了,癌症治不好,感冒治不好,好像除了自己本来就能好的病,就没有什么是能治好的。所以大学志愿填了理学院,幻想着自己有朝一日能在实验...
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