Establishing the experimenting society: The historical origin of social experimentation according to the randomized controlled design

American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 283-302

  Dehue, Trudy ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIOLOGY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUROPE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035378737     PISSN: 00029556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1423518     Document Type: Article

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