The Evolution of Medical Uncertainty

Social Theory and Social Structure

1958 • 10,861 citations

TRAINING FOR UNCERTAINTY

1957 • 442 citations

Medical nemesis: the expropriation of health

1980 • 425 citations

The Courage to Fail. A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis.

1979 • 288 citations

Disturbing the universe

1979 • 200 citations

Training for 'detached concern' in medical students

1963 • 191 citations

A Reappraisal of the Results of Stopping Therapy in Childhood Leukemia

1979 • 185 citations

Experiment Perilous: Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown.

1960 • 185 citations

First and last notebooks

1970 • 157 citations

Religious Movements in Central Africa: A Theoretical Study

1976 • 157 citations

SOME PRELIMINARIES TO A SOCIOLOGY OF MEDICAL EDUCATION

1957 • 114 citations

The Medusa and the Snail

1977 • 104 citations

The Case of the Floppy-Eared Rabbits: An Instance of Serendipity Gained and Serendipity Lost

1958 • 95 citations

The Way of an Investigator

1966 • 64 citations

Risk and Responsibility

1979 • 61 citations

Advanced Medical Technology-Social and Ethical Implications

1976 • 53 citations

The Code of the Scientist and Its Relationship to Ethics

1977 • 51 citations

Risk: A Pragmatic De Minimis Approach

1979 • 50 citations

"Making babies" revisited.

1979 • 35 citations

Science in Europe /Smallpox Death in Britain Challenges Presumption of Laboratory Safety

1979 • 27 citations

The ultimate experiment: Man-made evolution

1977 • 27 citations

The Presumptions of Science

2019 • 21 citations

Risks and benefits, rights and responsibilities: a history of the recombinant DNA research controversy.

1978 • 18 citations

Old Problems, New Challenges

1977 • 16 citations

The Frankenstein Factor

1977 • 13 citations

How to assess cancer risks

1979 • 13 citations

Ethics Advisory Board

1981 • 11 citations

Too much law, too little justice

1979 • 8 citations

In Vitro Fertilization: 'Ethically Acceptable' Research

1979 • 6 citations

Must a Man Be His Cousin's Keeper?

1978 • 6 citations

Recombinant DNA: The Argument Shifts

1977 • 5 citations

Scannings: The Moral Career of Genetic Engineering

1979 • 5 citations

In defense of DNA.

1977 • 4 citations