Politics, Science, and Dread Disease
Author | : S. P. Strickland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : S. P. Strickland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Stephen Parks Strickland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Medical |
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Author | : James T. PATTERSON |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0674041933 |
Relates the cultural history of cancer and examines society's reaction to the disease through a century of American life.
Author | : Deil S. Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Lily M. Hoffman |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780887069482 |
In this book the author examines the question of the compatibility of politics, policy-making, and professional work. Based on nineteen case studies of organizations, Hoffman looks at "what happened" as doctors and planners set out to redistribute services to minorities and the poor between 1960 and 1980.
Author | : Marc Shell |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0674043545 |
In this book, Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He deftly draws a detailed yet broad picture of the lived experience of a crippling disease as it makes it way into every facet of human existence.
Author | : Natalie B. Aviles |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2024-01-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0231551770 |
In American politics, medical innovation is often considered the domain of the private sector. Yet some of the most significant scientific and health breakthroughs of the past century have emerged from government research institutes. The U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) is tasked with both understanding and eradicating cancer—and its researchers have developed a surprising expertise in virus research and vaccine development. An Ungovernable Foe examines seventy years of federally funded scientific breakthroughs in the laboratories of the NCI to shed new light on how bureaucratic organizations nurture innovation. Natalie B. Aviles analyzes research and policy efforts around the search for a viral cause of leukemia in the 1960s, the discovery of HIV and the development of AIDS drugs in the 1980s, and the invention of the HPV vaccine in the 1990s. She argues that the NCI transformed generations of researchers into innovative public servants who have learned to balance their scientific and bureaucratic missions. These “scientist-bureaucrats” are simultaneously committed to conducting cutting-edge research and stewarding the nation’s investment in cancer research, and as a result they have developed an unparalleled expertise. Aviles demonstrates how the interplay of science, politics, and administration shaped the NCI into a mission-oriented agency that enabled significant breakthroughs in cancer research—and in the process, she shows how organizational cultures indelibly stamp scientific work.
Author | : Kevin Bardosh |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2016-02-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317334965 |
Zoonotic diseases – pathogens transmitted from animals to people – offer particularly challenging problems for global health institutions and actors, given the complex social-ecological dynamics at play. New forms of risk caused by unprecedented global connectivity and rapid social and environmental change demand new approaches. ‘One Health’ highlights the need for collaboration across sectors and disciplines to tackle zoonotic diseases. However, there has been little exploration of how social, political and economic contexts influence efforts to ‘do’ One Health. This book fills this gap by offering a much needed political economy analysis of zoonosis research and policy. Through ethnographic, qualitative and quantitative data, the book draws together a diverse number of case studies. These include chapters exploring global narratives about One Health operationalization and prevailing institutional bottlenecks; the evolution of research networks over time; and the histories and politics behind conflicting disease control approaches. The themes from these chapters are further contextualized and expanded upon through country-specific case studies – from Kenya, Zambia, Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone – exploring the translation of One Health research and policy into the African context. This book is a valuable resource for academic researchers, students and policy practitioners in the areas of global health, agriculture and development.
Author | : Rachel Kahn Best |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 019091842X |
For over a hundred years, millions of Americans have joined together to fight a common enemy by campaigning against diseases. In Common Enemies, Rachel Kahn Best asks why disease campaigns have dominated a century of American philanthropy and health policy and how the fixation on diseases shapes efforts to improve lives. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses in an unprecedented history of disease politics, Best shows that to achieve consensus, disease campaigns tend to neglect stigmatized diseases and avoid controversial goals. But despite their limitations, disease campaigns do not crowd out efforts to solve other problems. Instead, they teach Americans to give and volunteer and build up public health infrastructure, bringing us together to solve problems and improve our lives.
Author | : C. Hannaway |
Publisher | : IOS Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2008-02-11 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1607503085 |
Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics is a testimony to the growing interest of scholars in the development of the biomedical sciences in the twentieth century and to the number of historians, social scientists and health policy analysts now working on the subject. The book is comprised of essays by noted historians and social scientists that offer insights on a range of subjects that should be a significant stimulus for further historical investigation. It details the NIH’s practices, policies and politics on a variety of fronts, including the development of the intramural program, the National Institute of Mental Health and mental health policy, the politics and funding of heart transplantation and the initial focus of the National Cancer Institute. Comparisons can be made with the development of other American and British institutions involved in medical research, such as the Rockefeller Institute and the Medical Research Council. Discussions of the larger scientific and social context of United States’ federal support for research, the role of lay institutions in federal funding of virus research, the consequences of technology transfer and patenting, the effects of vaccine and drug development and the environment of research discoveries all offer new insights and suggest questions for further exploration.