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- Science at the White House: A Political Liability
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- 2019
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Funder: Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
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Originally published in 1980. In 1973 the US president's Office of Science and Technology was eliminated, a victim of its own incongruity. It was not, as was popularly proclaimed at the time, simply because the Nixon administration was particularly hostile to the scientific and academic communities. It was eliminated, argues physician-scientist Edward J. Burger Jr., because the office had tried to do its job too well—and had become a political liability. Science at the White House takes a critical look at the role of science advisers to the president and recounts the many conflicts that occurred as science and politics converged. Burger draws on his own six years of experience in the White House Office of Science and Technology in the 1970s. His book is filled with firsthand descriptions of the government's handling of such issues as national health care, environmental regulation, population control, and biomedical research.
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- Half Title
- p. i
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Dedication
- p. v
- List of Figures
- p. xi
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-5
- 3. National Health Policy
- pp. 25-44
- 6. Population and Family Planning
- pp. 98-104
- 7. Some Additional Issues
- pp. 105-113
- 8. Summing Up
- pp. 114-124
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421434551
Related ISBN(s)
9780801824333, 9781421434537, 9781421434544
MARC Record
OCLC
1122701557
Pages
206
Launched on MUSE
2019-10-10
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND