Description: Blinding As a Solution to Bias : Strengthening Biomedical Science, Forensic Science, and Law, Hardcover by Robertson, Christopher T. (EDT); Kesselheim, Aaron S. (EDT), ISBN 0128024607, ISBN-13 9780128024607, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US What information should jurors have during court proceedings to render a just decision? Should politicians know who is donating money to their campaigns? Will scientists draw biased conclusions about drug efficacy when they know more about the patient or study population? The potential for bias in decision-making by physicians, lawyers, politicians, and scientists has been recognized for hundreds of years and drawn attention from media and scholars seeking to understand the role that conflicts of interests and other psychological processes play. However, commonly proposed solutions to biased decision-making, such as transparency (disclosing conflicts) or exclusion (avoiding conflicts) do not directly solve the underlying problem of bias and may have unintended consequences. Robertson and Kesselheim bring together a renowned group of interdisciplinary scholars to consider another way to reduce the risk of biased decision-making: blinding. What are the advantages and limitations of blinding? How can we quantify the biases in unblinded research? Can we develop new ways to blind decision-makers? What are the ethical problems with withholding information from decision-makers in the course of blinding? How can blinding be adapted to legal and scientific procedures and in institutions not previously open to this approach? Fundamentally, these sorts of questions—about who needs to know what—open new doors of inquiry for the design of scientific research studies, regulatory institutions, and courts. The volume surveys the theory, practice, and future of blinding, drawing upon leading authors with a diverse range of methodologies and areas of expertise, including forensic sciences, medicine, law, philosophy, economics, psychology, sociology, and statistics.
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Book Title: Blinding As a Solution to Bias : Strengthening Biomedical Science
Number of Pages: 388 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Blinding As a Solution to Bias : Strengthening Biomedical Science, Forensic Science, and Law
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Subject: Discrimination & Race Relations, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Forensic Science, Testing & Measurement
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Law, Social Science, Education
Author: Aaron S. Kesselheim
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 7.5 in
Format: Hardcover
