Public Interest and the Architect

Regulation and the Public Interest

The increase in government regulation during the 1960s and 1970s is examined, as well as showing the importance of understanding the benefit/cost ratio of regulation.

Hospitals and the public interest.

In the public interest?

Restrictive patenting and licensing for cell-free fetal DNA testing has serious consequences for technology advances and benefits to public health.

Hospitals, Doctors, and the Public Interest

HOSPITALS, DOCTORS, AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST. Edited by John H. Knowles. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1965. xi, 337 pp. $8.50. This unique volume deals with many social, economic, and educational problems faced by hospitals in efforts to fulfill their responsibilities to the community and the people in families who live there. The fifteen contributors, who are leaders in medical a...

American Medicine and the Public Interest

American Medicine and the Public Interest, by ROSEMARY STEVENS, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1971, pp. xiii, 572, £9.00. Rosemary Stevens has delineated the effect on medicine of the formation of professional societies representing the specialties into which it became divided in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its introductory section, an examination of professionalizato...