Life sciences and health challenges
By: edited by Susan Raymond
Contributors: Raymond, Susan; New York Academy of Sciences
Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Medicine, Preventive; Biotechnology -- Health aspects; Public health -- Research -- Finance; Public health -- International cooperation
Table of contents: value: Global public health collaboration: organizing for a time of renewal; value: What could be simpler than childhood vaccination?: a parable for health care reform / Barry R. Bloom; value: Academic health centers face the future: reform, risk, and restructuring / William C. Richardson; value: Emerging and resurging infectious diseases: the New York City perspective / Margaret Hamburg; value: Infectious diseases and nature's revenge / Joshua Lederberg; value: Facing the priority of disease surveillance and control / Stephen S. Morse; value: Organizing to address global issues / Timothy E. Wirth; value: Reproductive health & reproductive products: politics, products, and processes / Margaret Catley-Carlson; value: Contraceptive research: the once and future revolution / Allan Rosenfield; value: Industrial R&D decision-making and contraceptive research / Michael E. Kafrissen; value: A clear and present threat to national security: military and civilian vulnerability to biological weapons / Joshua Lederberg; value: Responding to the biological warfare threat: possible approaches and necessary capacities / Richard Danzig; value: Life sciences, society, and industry: policies and partnerships on the biotech frontier; value: Molecular biology and society; value: Commercialization of biotechnology innovations; value: Biotechnology in New York