The future of biomedical research / Claude E. Barfield and Bruce L.R. Smith, editors.

Washington, D.C. : AEI Press : Brookings Institution, 1997.

xv, 130 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

The view from the national institutes of health / Harold E. Varmus -- The view from the National Academy of Sciences / Bruce Alberts -- The view from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Purnell W. Choppin -- The view from a working scientist / Ralph A. Bradshaw -- Support for basic biomedical research : how scientific breakthroughs occur / Arthur Kornberg -- The economists' case for biomedical research / Lynne G. Zucker and Michael R. Darby -- Commentary : shoring up government support / Frank R. Lichtenberg -- Federal funding of R&D in an era of budgetary restraint / June E. O'Neill and Philip C. Webre -- Emerging issues and the impact of balancing the federal budget / Albert A. Barber -- Commentary : the current direction of the federal budget / Robert B. Helms -- The case for dedicated funding / Mark O. Hatfield -- The case against dedicated funding / R. Glenn Hubbard -- Intellectual property and open communication in biomedical research / Clarisa Long and Richard A. Johnson -- Commentary : the move toward the privatization of biomedical research / Rebecca S. Eisenberg.

Includes bibliographic references and index