TY - BOOK ID - 78640754 TI - Medical illuminations PY - 2014 SN - 0191646032 9780191646034 9781299794535 129979453X 9780199668793 0199668795 0191646040 PB - Oxford New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Medical innovations. KW - Innovations, Medical KW - Medicine KW - Medical technology KW - Technological innovations KW - Innovations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78640754 AB - Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there's no chance for a second opinion, do you agree?The answers to these questions are not as black and white as they may first appear. Medical Illuminations presents thirteen contemporary medical topics, from the diminishing value of mammograms to how to decide if a hip needs to be replaced, to understanding cancer maps. In each case it illustrates how modern tools of statistical thinking and statistical grap ER -