One Man’s Medicine

Archibald Cochrane, the Scottish epidemiologist whose name lives on in the Cochrane Collaboration, offers an autobiographical account of a life spent insisting that medical decisions be grounded in rigorous evidence rather than tradition or authority. He recounts his experiences as a prisoner-of-war doctor, his pioneering studies on tuberculosis and pneumoconiosis, and his lifelong campaign to introduce randomized controlled trials into clinical practice.

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