1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698771603321

Titolo

Guidance for industry [[electronic resource] ] : S1C(R2) dose selection for carcinogenicity studies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Silver Spring, MD : , : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

[Rockville, MD] : , : Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, , [2008]

Descrizione fisica

i, 10 pages : digital, PDF file

Soggetti

Drugs - Dosage

Carcinogenicity testing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 6, 2009).

"ICH."

"Revision 1."

"September 2008."



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996217751403316

Autore

Hamlin Cynthia Lins <1969, >

Titolo

Beyond relativism : Raymond Boudon, cognitive rationality, and critical realism / / ynthia Lins Hamlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-87451-634-X

1-134-57592-0

1-134-57593-9

1-280-40187-7

0-203-28309-0

0-203-16753-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in critical realism ; ; 2

Disciplina

302

Soggetti

Social psychology

Social perception

Cultural relativism

Cognition and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [142]-148) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The action paradigm: bringing the agent back in; Linking structure and agency in Boudon's substantive analyses; Beyond Homo sociologicus and Homo economicus: a complex theory of rationality; Understanding, explanation and objectivity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that critical realism represents a better safeguard against the relativism which springs from the conflation of social reality and our ideas about it. This is an important book for sociologists  and anyone working in the social sciences, and for all those concerned with the methodology, and philosophy, of