Biomedical Scientists and Public Policy

ISBN-13: 9781461328889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 238 str.

H. H. Fudenberg; H. H. Fudenberg

Opis

This volume brings together the views of authors involved in many aspects of biomedicine-from research on basic biology to clinical invest igation of the causes and treatment of human disease to hospital adminis tration .to health care planning on the state and Federal levels to Con gressionallegislation covering biomedical research, medical education, the development of medical technology, and the delivery of health care. The purpose is not to present a "party line" representing a consensus of these often divergent viewpoints, and we do not suggest that we have found solutions to the many problems encountered in the interaction of scientists, administrators, legislators, and the recipients of health care. These articles are intended primarily to communicate to both biomedical scientists and intelligent laymen the processes, social and political as well as scientific, whereby biomedical science advances, and the need for biomedical scientists to take an interest and initiative not only in scientific research but also in research on health care delivery and in related public issues before the legislative and administrative branches of government."

Spis treści

1 The Silent Elite: Biologists and the Shaping of Science Policy.- 2 Scientific Basis for the Support of Biomedical Science.- 3 Informing the Public: Fiscal Returns of Biomedical Research.- 4 Of Questions and Committees.- 5 On the Planning of Science.- 6 Influence of NIH Policy Past and Present on the University Health Education Complex.- 7 Much Ado about Recombinant DNA Regulations.- 8 The Place of Biomedical Science in National Health Policy.- 9 Beyond the Warring Elements: A Search for Balance in Health Funding.- 10 The Formulation of Health Policy.- 11 Specialization as Scientific Advancement and Overspecialization as Social Distortion.- 12 The Education of Black Health Professionals.- 13 Women in Health Care Decision Making.- 14 Technology Assessment and Genetics.