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The Challenge of Life

Biomedical Progress and Human Values

Birkhäuser

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  1. Robert M. Kunz
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  2. Hans Fehr
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Part of the book series: Experientia Supplementum (EXS, volume 17)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-12
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  2. Proceedings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-18
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    2. Opening Session

      • Adolf Walter Jann, Alfred Pletscher, Lord Todd
      Pages 19-32

    3. Biomedical Frontiers

      • Philip Handler, Salvador E. Luria, Joshua Lederberg, Niels K. Jerne, Seymour S. Kety
      Pages 33-78

    4. Impact of Biomedical Progress on Society and the Individual

      • René König, Alfred Sauvy, Pierre Pichot, Margaret Mead, Jürgen Moltmann, Avram Goldstein
      Pages 79-115

    5. The Right to Health

      • Jan Waldenström, Jeanne Hersch, Bernard Barber, Arnold Burgen, Charles A. Berry, Kenneth J. Arrow et al.
      Pages 117-182

    6. Concluding Session

      • Lord Todd, Adolf Walter Jann
      Pages 183-220

  3. Papers and Curricula of the Active Participants

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-223
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    2. Papers

      2. Biomedical frontiers: genetics
        • Joshua Lederberg
        Pages 231-245
      9. Comments on the drug abuse problem
        • Avram Goldstein
        Pages 335-344
      11. Experimenting with humans: problems and processes of social control in the biomedical research community
        • Bernard Barber, John Lally, Julia Makarushka, Daniel Sullivan
        Pages 357-373
      12. Shifting targets for our magic bullets
        • Arnold Burgen
        Pages 374-378
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About this book

In the autumn of 1971 F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. Ltd in Basel celebrated their 75th anniversary. The company was one of the first in the chemical industry to concentrate from the beginning on pharmaceuticals. Step by step new activi­ ties were taken up, but all within the frontiers of biology. During the 75 years of Roche the research division has become by far the largest department in the company, with basic research assuming an increasingly important part in it. For this reason Roche cannot but feel a share of res pons i­ bility towards the many problems raised by biomedical progress. Hence, the idea of celebrating the anniversary along conventional lines could not be seriously entertained. The occasion was to show Roche at work. A special kind of work certainly, breaking away from the daily routine into the sphere offree communi­ cation with thinking people outside the purview of the company's usual tasks.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Challenge of Life

  • Book Subtitle: Biomedical Progress and Human Values

  • Editors: Robert M. Kunz, Hans Fehr

  • Series Title: Experientia Supplementum

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5864-9

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 1972

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-5866-3Published: 11 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-5864-9Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1664-431X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2504-3692

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 456

  • Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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