Jeanne Daly is co-editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health and Adjunct Professor in the Mother & Child Health Research Centre at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She is the coauthor of Technologies and Health: Critical Compromises (2001), The Public Health Researcher: A Methodological Guide (1997), Reinterpreting Menopause: Cultural and Philosophical Issues (1997), Ethical Intersections: Health Research, Methods, and Researcher Responsibility (1996), and Researching Health Care: Designs, Dilemmas, and Disciplines (1992).

• Foreword by Daniel M. Fox and Samuel L. Milbank By Way of Background Note on Method 1. Introduction: Evidence, Science, and Certainty 2. Clinical Epidemiology: The Intellectual Heritage 3. The Discipline of Clinical Epidemiology 4. The Rise of Evidence-Based Medicine 5. An Appraisal, with Critique 6. The British Intellectual Heritage 7. The Cochrane Collaboration 8. The Cochrane Collaboration in South Africa 9. Achievements and Limitations 10. The Continuing Search for a Science of Clinical Care Bibliography Index

"This book is an engaging account of the evolution of evidence-based medicine, and an incisive analysis of this approach to improving healthcare. Daly's critique is a refreshing and scholarly contrast with the erection and demolition of straw men by many critics of EBM, as she poses important challenges to practitioners, policy makers, patients, researchers and others who wish to play their part in improving clinical care." - Sir Iain Chalmers, Editor at the James Lind Library"