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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Exploring the growing division among academic scientists over a profit motive in research. The commercialization of research is one of the most significant contemporary features of US higher education, yet we know surprisingly little about how scientists perceive and experience commercial rewards. A Fractured Profession is the first book to systematically examine the implications of commercialization for both universities and faculty members from the perspective of academic scientists. Drawing on richly detailed interviews with sixty-one scientists at four universities across the United States, sociologist David R. Johnson explores how an ideology of commercialism produces intraprofessional ...
Annotation A critical assessment of the Medicare program and what it will take to make the program work successfully for our aging population, by a physician who is one of the nation's leaders in geriatric medicine.