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Biopolicy after three decades

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Robert H. Blank
Robert H. Blank*
Affiliation:
Division of Social Sciences, New College of Florida, 5700 North Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34243-2197. rblank.24601@hotmail.com
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Thirty years ago there were at most only a handful of political scientists who were interested in or publishing about policy issues in the life sciences, concentrated primarily in the health or environmental policy areas. As a result, political science was notably absent as a discipline either in the literature, at conferences, or as members of state or national commissions, advisory bodies, or institutional review boards involving the life sciences.

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Founders' Forum
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , Spring 2011 , pp. 52 - 55
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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