Between Bench and Bedside: Building Clinical Consensus at the NIH, 1977-2013.

This article argues that the CDP represented an unusual attempt to depoliticize biomedical research and medical practice at a particularly controversial time in American medicine. Throughout the program's existence, administrators sought ways to bring new knowledge to the medical community without creating the appearance of regulating clinical practice. For an agency with a mandate to promote the production of new biomedical knowledge, the question remained open as to how far this responsibility extended from the bench to the bedside. In striking this balance, the leadership sought to refine their understanding of the role and mission of the NIH. The history of the CDP has much to tell us about postwar biomedical research, health politics, and the institutional development of the NIH. PMID: 30124917 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Medical History - Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tags: J Hist Med Allied Sci Source Type: research