CQ Interview: A Diagnosis of Undue Influence: Congressman Henry Waxman on Science and Politics

Busy physicians and scientists tend to be willfully naive about politics. Physics, chemistry, and biology are clean—that is, subject to relatively consistent and identifiable laws or at least trends and, certainly in the case of medicine, beneficial when properly applied. Politics, on the other hand...

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Main Author: Heilig, Steve (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2004
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2004, Volume: 13, Issue: 4, Pages: 422-426
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Summary:Busy physicians and scientists tend to be willfully naive about politics. Physics, chemistry, and biology are clean—that is, subject to relatively consistent and identifiable laws or at least trends and, certainly in the case of medicine, beneficial when properly applied. Politics, on the other hand, tend to be unpredictable, murky, and dirty—that is, too often all about self-serving power and, ultimately, money.
ISSN:1469-2147
Contains:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0963180104134154