Randomized Controlled Trials for Diagnostic Imaging: Conceptual and Pratical Problems

Topoi - We raise a problem of applicability of RCTs to validate nuclear diagnostic imaging tests. In spite of the wide application of PET and other similar techniques that use radiopharmaceuticals...     

Harm should not be a necessary criterion for mental disorder: some reflections on the DSM-5 definition of mental disorder

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - The general definition of mental disorder stated in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders seems to identify a mental...