Tomorrow's cures today? : how to reform the health research system /: how to reform the health research system. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Donald R. Forsdyke.
• Other Names: Forsdyke, Donald R
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: Prefaceix -- Acknowledgmentsxv -- About the Authorxvii -- 1 The Credulity of Kings: How Research Is Marketed1 -- 2 The Slaughter of the Innocents: Diphtheria9 -- 3 On Giraffes and Peer Review: How We Got into this Mess17 -- 4 The Origins of the Clonal Selection Theory of Immunity: -- A Case Study for Evaluation in Science25 -- 5 Huxley and the Philosopher's Wife: Another Case History in Evaluation in Science35 -- 6 Alas, We Are No Longer at School! Teacher Review and Peer Review Are Different55 -- 7 Damage-Limitation or Superelitism? The Case for a Sliding Scale of Funding65 -- 8 Promise or Performance as the Basis for Distribution of Research Funds71 -- 9 A Systems Analyst with AIDS asks about the Research Funding System83 -- 10 How a Systems Analyst with AIDS would Reform Research Funding91 -- 11 Not Cricket99 -- 12 Pavlovian Effects111 -- 13 Partnership with the Drug Industry?123 -- 14 Prospects for Reform?131 -- References139 -- Index157.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (174 pages)
• Subjects: 362.1/072; Medicine -- Research -- Political aspects; Health care reform; Research -- trends -- Popular Works; Research Support -- trends -- Popular Works; Public health -- Finance; Public health -- Research; Health care reform; Medicine -- Research -- Political aspects; Popular Works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482283631; 1482283638
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