"He knows that machine is his mortality": old and new social and cultural patterns in the clinical trial of the AbioCor artificial heart.

Fox, Renée C

"He knows that machine is his mortality": old and new social and cultural patterns in the clinical trial of the AbioCor artificial heart. [electronic resource] - Perspectives in biology and medicine 2004 - 74-99 p. digital

Publication Type: Case Reports; Journal Article

0031-5982

10.1353/pbm.2004.0006 doi


Attitude to Health
Clinical Trials as Topic--economics
Commerce--economics
Consent Forms
Culture
Financing, Government
Heart, Artificial--adverse effects
Humans
Implants, Experimental--adverse effects
Male
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Patient Discharge
Terminally Ill
Therapeutic Human Experimentation--economics
United States
United States Food and Drug Administration