The Third Samuel Haughton Lecture - Men, medicine and machines

Irish Journal of Medical Science

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 152-156

  Grace, Pierce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STREPTOMYCIN;

BED REST; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DEATH; HANGING; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHLEBOTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ARTICLE; HISTORY; IRELAND; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; STATISTICS; SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

CLINICAL TRIALS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; IRELAND; STATISTICS; SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 0031180313     PISSN: 00211265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02943595     Document Type: Short Survey

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