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The social context of medical research / edited by Henry Wechsler, Ronald W. Lamont-Havers, George F. Cahill, Jr. ; with the assistance of Barbara Gale.

Title
The social context of medical research / edited by Henry Wechsler, Ronald W. Lamont-Havers, George F. Cahill, Jr. ; with the assistance of Barbara Gale.
Publication
Cambridge, MA : Ballinger, 1981.

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Additional Authors
  • Cahill, George F., 1927-2012.
  • Lamont-Havers, Ronald W.
  • Wechsler, Henry, 1932-
Description
xix, 334 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Value conflict and social controls over research / Dorothy Nelkin -- The planning of research / Thomas J. Kennedy, Jr., and Ivan L. Bennett, Jr. -- Factors influencing a national biomedical research program / Ronald W. Lamont-Havers -- Informed consent and the rights of research subjects / Charles U. Lowe and Duane F. Alexander -- Biomedical research as a social process / Bernard Barber -- Health policy and the need to know / Howard S. Frazier and Harvey V. Fineberg -- Medical technology: its development, assessment, and control / Frederick C. Robbins and Sarah Spaght Brown -- The control of health problems related to industrialization / Jacqueline K. Corn and Morton Corn -- The politics of drug research and development / Alexander M. Schmidt -- Preventive health behavior / Sol Levine -- Prolonging life / Robert M. Veatch.
ISBN
0884107302
LCCN
81008076
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries