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Claude E. Barfield, Bruce R.L. Smith
ISBN: 9780844740379
Format: Paperback
Publisher:AEI Press
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Nineteen experts grapple with the major issues confronting the nation in ensuring continued U.S. leadership in biomedical research and, at the same time, in achieving the fullest possible social benefits from this research. The authors explore the prospects for government support of biomedical research in an era of federal downsizing, the merits of funding disease…
The authors explore the prospects for government support of biomedical research in an era of federal downsizing; the merits of funding disease-based research versus untargeted basic research; the promise and challenges of the growing alliance between universities and corporations in biomedical research; and the complicated issues related to the granting of intellectual property rights for publicly funded research. Contributors to this volume include Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health; former senator Mark Hatfield, Republican of Oregon; Bruce Alberts, president, National Academy of Sciences; June O'Neill, director, Congressional Budget Office; R. Glenn Hubbard, Columbia University; Michael Darby and Lynne Zucker, University of California, Los Angeles; Frank Lichtenberg, Columbia University; Rebecca Eisenberg, University of Michigan Law School; Clarisa Long, American Enterprise Institute; Richard Johnson, Arnold and Porter; and Purnell W. Choppin, president, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
| ISBN | 0844740373 | | Pages | 125 | | ISBN13 | 9780844740379
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 000 | | Publisher | AEI Press | | Weight (grammes) | 236 | | Imprint | AEI Press | | Published in | Washington DC | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Publication date | 01 Jan 1998 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Library of Congress | R854.U5 F8 | | Spine width (mm) | 12 | | DEWEY | 610.72 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Contributors | | | | 1 | | Introduction by Claude E. Barfield and Bruce L. R. Smith | | 1 | | 2 | | The View from the National Institutes of Health by Harold E. Varmus | | 9 | | 3 | | The View from the National Academy of Sciences by Bruce Alberts | | 16 | | 4 | | The View from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute by Purnell W. Choppin | | 21 | | 5 | | The View from a Working Scientist by Ralph A. Bradshaw | | 26 | | 6 | | Support for Basic Biomedical Research: How Scientific Breakthroughs Occur by Arthur Kornberg | | 35 | | 7 | | The Economists' Case for Biomedical Research by Lynne G. Zucker and Michael R. Darby | | 42 | | 8 | | Commentary: Shoring Up Government Support by Frank R. Lichtenberg | | 67 | | 9 | | Federal Funding of R&D in an Era of Budgetary Restraint by June E. O'Neill and Philip C. Webre | | 75 | | 10 | | Emerging Issues and the Impact or Balancing the Federal Budget by Albert A. Barber | | 84 | | 11 | | Commentary: The Current Direction of the Federal Budget by Robert B. Helms | | 89 | | 12 | | The Case for Dedicated Funding by Mark O. Hatfield | | 93 | | 13 | | The Case against Dedicated Funding by R. Glenn Hubbard | | 97 | | 14 | | Intellectual Property and Open Communication in Biomedical Research by Clarisa Long and Richard A. Johnson | | 105 | | 15 | | Commentary: The Move toward the Privatization of Biomedical Research by Rebecca S. Eisenberg | | 121 | | | | Index | | 125 |
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