Biomedical politics / Kathi E. Hanna, editor ; Division of Health Sciences Policy, Committee to Study Biomedical Decision Making, Institute of Medicine.

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991.

viii, 352 pages ; 24 cm

Unproven AIDS therapies : the Food and Drug Administration and ddI / Jeffrey Levi. Commentaries / Leon Eisenberg, Peter F. Carpenter -- A political history of RU-486 / R. Alta Charo. Commentaries / William Hubbard, Peter F. Carpenter -- The human genome project : the formation of federal policies in the United States, 1986-1990 / Robert Mullan Cook-Deegan. Commentaries / Paul Berg, Ernest R. May -- Origins of the medicare kidney disease entitlement : the social security amendments of 1972 / Richard A. Rettig. Commentaries / Carl W. Gottschalk, Stanley Joel Reiser -- Deliberations of the human fetal tissue transplantation research panel / James F. Childress. Commentaries / Patrica A. King, Walter Harrelson

Asilomar and recombinant DNA : the end of the beginning / Donald S. Fredrickson. Commentaries / Dorothy Nelkin, Paul Slovic -- The public and the expert in biomedical policy controversies / Stanley Joel Reiser.

Includes bibliographical references and index