Author: Committee on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Dev
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: making, biomedicine, decision, ethical, choices, social, society
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1995-02-27
List price: $67.95
ISBN-10: 0309051320
ISBN-13: 9780309051323
This book discusses ways for people to handle today’s bioethical issues in the context of America’s history and culture--and from the perspective of various interest groups. Included is a series of background papers by well-known experts in the field.
Author: Committee on Ethical Considerations for Revisions
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: prisoners, involving, research, considerations, ethical
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2007-01-31
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0309101190
ISBN-13: 9780309101196
In the past 30 years, the population of prisoners in the United States has expanded almost 5-fold, correctional facilities are increasingly overcrowded, and more of the country’s disadvantaged populations - racial minorities, women, people with mental illness, and people with communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis are under correctional supervision. Because prisoners face restrictions on liberty and autonomy, have limited privacy, and often receive inadequate health care, they require specific protections when involved in research, particularly in todayR
Author: Committee on Xenograft Transplantation: Ethical Is
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: policy, public, ethics, science, xenotransplantation
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 1996-07-17
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0309055490
ISBN-13: 9780309055499
Author: Committee on the Ethical and Legal Issues Relating
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: women, clinical, studies, including, health, workshop, commissioned, papers, volume, legal, ethical, research, issues
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1994-01-01
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0309050405
ISBN-13: 9780309050401
Institute of Medicine Workshop and Commissioned Papers. Text of papers presented at the invitational workshop held at Georgetown University, March 24-25, 1993. 22 U.S. contributors.
Author: Committee on Assessing the Impacts of Changes in t
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: leadership, retaining, increasingly, global, environment, ecosystem, amp, impacts, changes, information, technology, assessing
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2009-03-16
List price: $45.25
ISBN-10: 0309118824
ISBN-13: 9780309118828
Book DescriptionThe U.S. information technology (IT) research and development (R&D) ecosystem was the envy of the world in 1995. However, this position of leadership is not a birthright, and it is now under pressure. In recent years, the rapid globalization of markets, labor pools, and capital flows have encouraged many strong national competitors. During the same period, national policies have not sufficiently buttressed the ecosystem, or have generated side effects that have reduced its effectiveness. As a result, the U.S. position in IT leadership today has materially eroded compared wi
Author: Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: workshop, impacts, report, extended, summary, economic, societal, space, weather, events, understanding, severe
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-05-12
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0309138116
ISBN-13: 9780309138116
Book DescriptionThe adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology--power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies--are well known and well documented, and the physical processes underlying space weather are also generally well understood. Less well documented and understood, however, are the potential economic and societal impacts of the disruption of critical technological systems by severe space weather. This volume, an extended four-color summary of the book, Severe Space Weather Events--Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts, addresses
Author: Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: economic, impacts, workshop, report, societal, understanding, space, weather, events, severe
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-12-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0309127696
ISBN-13: 9780309127691
Book DescriptionThe adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology--power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies--are well known and well documented, and the physical processes underlying space weather are also generally well understood. Less well documented and understood, however, are the potential economic and societal impacts of the disruption of critical technological systems by severe space weather. As a first step toward determining the socioeconomic impacts of extreme space weather events and addressing the questions of space weather
