CONTROLLED CRITICAL TRIALS. PAPERS DELIVERED AT THE CONFERENCE CONVENED BY THE COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, ESTABLISHED UNDER THE JOINT AUSPICES OF UNESCO AND WHO
by HILL, A. BRADFORD
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/Very Good
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/Very Good. Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Book lightly rubbed at head and heel of spine. Ownership signature to front paste down. Upper edge of text block a bit foxed. Three (3) pages with rusty imprint of a paperclip and a couple pages with light folds to corners otherwise a clean and square copy. Dust jacket not price clipped, with a bit of wear to edges, a few short rips otherwise clean and very good. Rather a pretty good copy of a rare title attributed to English epidemiologist and statistician who pioneered the randomized clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, was the first to demonstrate the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Hill is widely known for pioneering the "Bradford Hill" criteria for determining a causal association. [wikipedia].
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- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1708
- Title
- CONTROLLED CRITICAL TRIALS. PAPERS DELIVERED AT THE CONFERENCE CONVENED BY THE COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, ESTABLISHED UNDER THE JOINT AUSPICES OF UNESCO AND WHO
- Author
- HILL, A. BRADFORD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Blackwell Scientific Publications
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1960
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Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
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Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
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Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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