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The Social Control of Impersonal Trust

How do societies control trust relationships that are not embedded in structures of personal relations? This paper discusses the guardians of impersonal trust and discovers that...

1987 American Journal of Sociology 1672 citations

Overdiagnosis in Cancer

This article summarizes the phenomenon of cancer overdiagnosis-the diagnosis of a "cancer" that would otherwise not go on to cause symptoms or death. We describe the two prerequ...

2010 JNCI Journal of the National Cancer I... 1543 citations