{"product_id":"science-at-the-white-house-9781421434537","title":"Science at the White House","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally 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 welland 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Burger has done us a service with his fascinating account of . . . the inevitable infusion of politics into the setting of science policy.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew England Journal of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Don K. Price\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Science Advice for the President: A Perspective\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. National Health Policy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Health-Related Research and Development\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Environment, Health, and Regulation to Protect Health\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Population and Family Planning\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Some Additional Issues\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Summing Up\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A. Report of the Domestic Council Health Policy Review Group\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B. The White House: Press Release Febrnary 18, 1971\u003cbr\u003eAppendix C. Proposal for PSA C Panel on Biological and Medical Science\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408134414679,"sku":"9781421434537","price":25.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421434537.jpg?v=1730501710","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/science-at-the-white-house-9781421434537","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}