Science In The Private Interest - Has The Lure Of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research? Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (2009) San Francisco

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Science In The Private Interest - Has The Lure Of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research? Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (2009) San FranciscoSomething has changed in the culture and values of academic science over the last quarter century. University science is now entangled with entrepreneurship, and researchers with a commercial interest are caught in an ethical quandary. How can an academic scientist honor knowledge for its own sake, while also using knowledge as a means to generate wealth? Science in the Private Interest investigates the trends and effects of modern, commercialized