The good, the bad, and the ugly: effect of regulations on cancer research
2008; Elsevier BV; Volume: 9; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s1470-2045(07)70388-1
ISSN1474-5488
Autores Tópico(s)Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
ResumoWhen the scientist and philosopher Michael Polyani visited Nikolai Bukharin, principle framer of the Soviet Constitution, in Moscow in the mid-1930s, he was appalled by the over-management of scientific research and returned convinced that the freedom of science to choose its content, subject, and means of work was paramount. 1 Holton G. Michael Polyani and the history of science. Keynote address to Harvard Divinity School, Feb 28, 1992. Google Scholar Today the spectre of Soviet-style management and regulation threaten the fundamental ethos and creativity of cancer research. For the past decade we have witnessed the inextricable rise of the business over-management of public-sector research and the layering of one set of regulations on another.
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