Issues in Focus: Science and the Law | Summer 2000

Preserving Privacy

Issues — Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:00:00 +0000

Telling “good stories” has been and will continue to be meaningful in making the impact of technology on privacy issues less abstract and more real. Simson Garfinkel’s Database Nation is the most… Read More

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Science in the Courtroom

Issues — Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:00:00 +0000

In this age of science, science should expect to find a warm welcome, perhaps a permanent home, in our courtrooms. The legal disputes before us increasingly involve the principles and tools of… Read More

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Reconciling Research and the Patent System

Issues — Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:00:00 +0000

Is tension growing between the goal of protecting intellectual property and the goal of advancing scientific and technological research? Some people think so. There’s a perception in some quarters that the gears… Read More

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Forum – Summer 2000

Issues — Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:00:00 +0000

Ecosystem assessment
In “Ecosystem Data to Guide Hard Choices” (Issues, Spring 2000) Walter V. Reid makes a compelling case that improved information is needed to enable decisionmakers to cope with… Read More

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Roundtable: Medical Privacy

Issues — Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:00:00 +0000

This roundtable is an abridged version of a discussion that took place in September 1999 as part of a meeting of the President’s Circle of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy… Read More

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Improving Communication About New Food Technologies

Issues — Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:00:00 +0000

The debate about genetically engineered crops provides an early warning signal that the U.S. public is apprehensive about the benefits and risks associated with new food technologies. It also indicates that the… Read More

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From the Hill – Summer 2000

Issues — Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:00:00 +0000

Report calls genetically altered plants safe; White House to boost oversight
A National Research Council (NRC) report released on April 5 concludes that genetically engineered plants appear to be safe but that… Read More

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Science and the Law

Issues — Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:00:00 +0000

A dozen years ago, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, under the leadership of David Hamburg, established a commission to explore the broad terrain bounded by the title, “Science, Technology, and Government.”… Read More

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Beyond the Social Contract Myth

Issues — Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:00:00 +0000

In January of 1803, six months before Napoleon offered him the Louisiana Territory, President Thomas Jefferson asked Congress for an appropriation of $2,500 to conduct a scientific and geographic survey of the… Read More

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Retiring the Social Contract for Science

Issues — Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:00:00 +0000

A widely held tenet among policy scholars maintains that the way people talk about a policy influences how they and others conceive of policy problems and options. In contemporary political lingo, the… Read More

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