Evidence-based medicine and the search for a science of clinical care / Jeanne Daly.

Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, [2005], ©2005.

xv, 275 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-264) and index.

Introduction : evidence, science, and certainty -- Clinical epidemiology: the intellectual heritage -- The discipline of clinical epidemiology -- The rise of evidence-based medicine -- An appraisal, with critique -- The British intellectual heritage -- The Cochrane collaboration -- The Cochrane collaboration in South Africa -- Achievements and limitations -- The continuing search for a science of clinical care.