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CQ Interview: A Diagnosis of Undue Influence: Congressman Henry Waxman on Science and Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2004

STEVE HEILIG
STEVE HEILIG
Affiliation:
Steve Heilig, M.P.H., is Director of Public Health and Education at the San Francisco Medical Society, Director of the Bay Area Network of Ethics Committees, San Francisco, California, and Co-Editor of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
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Extract

Busy physicians and scientists tend to be willfully naive about politics. Physics, chemistry, and biology are clean—that is, subject to relatively consistent and identifiable laws or at least trends and, certainly in the case of medicine, beneficial when properly applied. Politics, on the other hand, tend to be unpredictable, murky, and dirty—that is, too often all about self-serving power and, ultimately, money.

Type
CQ INTERVIEW
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 422 - 426
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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