Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index.
Contents
A medical maze: the finasteride question -- The prostate cancer prevention trial -- Sister drugs: finasteride and tamoxifen -- Specific harms and general benefits -- Calculation of harm -- Medical knowledge and medical ignorance -- Prevention gone too far -- Breakthrough: "the present is obsolete" -- "I will abstain from harming any man" -- "Do no harm?" -- The finasteride story: what did not happen.