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Laura Bothwell

United States

Bioethics - Medical ethics, Science and technology studies, History of Medecine

01.02.2017-28.02.2017

The History of Randomized Controlled Trials and the Political Battle for Reliable, Ethical Health Research
Laura Bothwell earned a PhD in the History and Ethics of Public Health and Medicine through the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Health Policy, Law, and Ethics at Harvard Medical School/the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL), where she is currently an affiliated researcher. She is working on a book on historical, ethical, and policy dimensions of randomized controlled trials. This book explores how RCTs emerged and have functioned in science and society, from early written records of the concepts behind RCTs to their present status as the increasingly globalized gold standard for clinical research. While ethics are important in many stages of the history of RCTs, she is currently exploring the historical emergence and implementation of international ethics policies in RCTs the late twentieth century.

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