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February 23, 2009
Homer A. Neal, MS'63, PhD'66, Tobin L. Smith, '88, and Jennifer B. McCormick, MPP'04
Beyond Sputnik: US Science Policy in the Twenty-First Century, University of Michigan Press, 2008.
The book: Public policy exerts a huge impact on how the scientific community conducts its work. This book is a comprehensive survey of the field for use as an introductory textbook and a reference guide for legislators, scientists, journalists and advocates seeking to understand the science policy-making process. Detailed case studies, on topics from cloning to homeland security, offer readers the opportunity to study real instances of policymaking. The authors propose practical ways to implement sound public policy in science and technology and highlight how these policies will guide the results of scientific discovery for years to come.
The authors: Homer A. Neal is the Samuel A. Goudsmit Distinguished University Professor of Physics, interim president emeritus and vice president for research emeritus at U-M and a former member of the US National Science Board. Tobin L. Smith is associate vice president for federal relations at the Association of American Universities and formerly assistant director of the U-M and MIT Washington, DC, offices. Jennifer B. McCormick is an assistant professor of biomedical ethics in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Mayo College of Medicine and the associate director of the Research Ethics Resource, part of the Mayo Clinic's NIH Clinical Translational Science Award research programs.
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